More on the Violence Policy Center’s Google Based Study
I mentioned before their highly scientific method of scanning news reports to count incidents involving folks with handgun carry permits. Tom Humphrey notes what I mentioned then, that the study excludes three incidents in Tennessee. And it does. Of course, the study also includes some folks who did not actually have a carry permit and includes folks who were charged but were never convicted. Linoge notes:
they used the word “killed” and not the word “murdered”, and they specified “criminal charges”, but not “criminal convictions”. Both of those are remarkably significant rephrasings of the debate
And, of course, that’s out of over 3.5M permit holders nationwide.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am
Actually, that was me, Unc…
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Dammit. You all look the same.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am
Is there a link, to a possible transcript of Sen. Thune attacking the opposition to his bill because of them quoting this VPC study?
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Hm. If I were WizardPC, I might just be offended…