Eric7216
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So Hillary's statement that "3000 people have been killed bu guns since the last debate" quite accurate. Thanks for the stats.
Ahh, the joys of fact checking.
In 2012, PolitiFacts called Romney assertion "that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China", as the Lie of the Year despite the fact that, yes, Jeep production was moved to China. They claimed that it was a lie because Jeep denied the plans, and, later when Jeep actually announced that they, in fact, were moving Jeep production to China on the grounds that all Jeep production was not being moved. (Something Romney never said or implied.) Jeeps are being produced in China.
So, with that in mind, let's review. The Clinton campaign claimed that she was using the 2013 CDC stats, as I showed. So, 11,203 firearm homicides and 21,175 firearm suicides in 2013, according to the CDC. So, 32,378 firearm deaths in a year, or 88.7 a day or 2,839 in the 32 days between LV debate on Oct 13th and the Nov 14th debate.
So, Lie #1-Not 3,000, 2,839.
Lie #2-2013 stats have nothing to do with 10/13/15 to 11/14/15 stats. (But, yeah, maybe she is right when we get those figures compiled.)
Misleading Statement/Lie #3-Suicides normally would not be included with homicides. Seems like a scare tactic to include them.
Lie #4-"gun" is a subset of firearm. Many firearms have rifling and therefore are not "guns" as any Basic Training soldier learns rather early in training.