Well, that explains it
I mentioned how the TN Department of Health revised the number of accidental gun deaths from 130 to 5. What the local press accounts of the incident failed to let us know is that the initial data came from a gun control group pushing an agenda:
In mid-September, Tennessee gun control group Safe Tennessee Project trumpeted a disturbing new statistic gleaned from the Centers for Disease Controls Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) in order to bolster their anti-gun agenda. The group contended that in 2014, 105 Tennesseans were killed in unintentional shootings, a more than five-fold increase from 2013. As expected, the press dutifully parroted the groups claims. However, the incredible statistic touted by Safe Tennessee Project turned out to be just that, not credible. Following a review of their data, the Tennessee Department of Health, who provided the unintentional shooting data to the CDC, determined that the 105 figure was inaccurate and that the correct number of unintentional shooting deaths in Tennessee in 2014 was five.
October 2nd, 2016 at 5:54 pm
Well, they wouldn’t be a gun control group if they didn’t lie their asses off at every chance.
October 2nd, 2016 at 6:19 pm
Please note the name for the reporting system is essentially “Wise Arse”
October 2nd, 2016 at 7:37 pm
The Safe Tennessee project is essentially Beth Josylin Roth, whose biography states that she works at a national gun safety group, but she’s always referred to as a volunteer.
October 2nd, 2016 at 7:41 pm
By the way, a couple of years ago they (she) put out a press release saying that the metro Nashville Police department doesn’t provide enough training to their officers for them to safely carry firearms. Not just off duty–not at all.
I’m pretty sure that the local abc affiliate turned off comments on their site in large part because they had stories about her every week and I’d always drop links to that press release.
October 3rd, 2016 at 3:09 pm
And they still keep working to violate the constitution at every level.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/03/federal-agency-pushed-law-enforcement-scan-license-plates-gun-shows/