NRA News Promotes Dubious Acts Of Self-Defense To Advance False Gun Violence Narrative

[billh58]

1. Just another example of

NRA outright lies in order to justify their right-wing Second Amendment absolutists' penchant for provocation to incite violence and vigilantism. From the linked article:

"But an analysis of Kleck's data has shown his figure to be an overestimation so great that it is mathematically impossible. David Hemenway, who heads the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, noted "serious methodological deficiencies" in Kleck's work that lead to absurd outcomes. For example, if Kleck's data about defensive gun uses and burglaries is accurate, in more than 100 percent of burglaries the victim defends themselves with a gun.

While the actual number of defensive gun uses is very difficult to estimate due to the rarity of the event, Hemenway and others at the Harvard Injury Research Control Center asked individuals to describe both defensive gun uses and instances where they were threatened by a gun in a 2000 study and found that as a ratio "{g}uns are used to threaten and intimidate far more often than they are used in self defense. Most self reported self defense gun uses may well be illegal and against the interests of society."

But then again, twisting "statistics" (even the made up kind) is what the right-wing ALEC/Koch Brothers backed NRA does best. Their cold-dead-hands followers and cheerleaders repeat these lies and bogus "statistics" at every opportunity based on the marketing/political ploy that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it.