{"id":18712,"date":"2013-05-09T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18712"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T23:27:12","slug":"manufacturing-a-phony-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18712","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing A Phony Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years we have had a number of very disturbing incidents involving guns. While those incidents are horrific, they are not an indication of where things are in relation to guns in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CBN News<\/a> reported today that the Justice Department<\/a> released a report on Tuesday showing that gun violence in the United States<\/a> has decreased 39 percent since 1993.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Another report by the Pew Research Center<\/a> found a drop of 49 percent. Both studies indicate non-fatal crimes involving guns were down by about 70 percent over that same period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article also reminds us:<\/p>\n

“The public doesn’t get its feelings out of crime statistics<\/a>,” Alfred Blumstein<\/a>, an urban systems professor at Heinz College<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon University<\/a>, noted. “The public gets its feelings from particularly notorious events, and what the press talks about.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we choose to watch the mainstream media, we need to remember that they have long since departed from the idea of reporting the news impartially.\u00a0 The fact that gun violence has decreased rather than increased would be news for most Americans<\/a>. The question remains as to whether or not they will ever hear that news.<\/p>\n

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