Obama’s Lies About Gun Statistics Are So Blatant That Even The Washington Post Is Calling Him Out // Mr. Conservative

Obama’s Lies About Gun Statistics Are So Blatant That Even The Washington Post Is Calling Him Out // Mr. Conservative

Obama’s Lies About Gun Statistics Are So Blatant That Even The Washington Post Is Calling Him Out

AUTHOR Bookworm

“Facts are stubborn things,” said John Adams. “Facts? Meh! Who needs ‘em?” asks a President determined to force gun control on Americans by hook-or-by-crook. While President Obama didn’t voice those exact words, he didn’t need to. What he did, instead, was to try to sell false statistics to the American people in order to move his limitless gun control agenda forward.
During several speeches, Obama has insisted that 40% of all gun purchases in America take place without a background check. For example, in a March 28 speech, he asked rhetorically, “Why wouldn’t we want to close the loophole that allows as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases to take place without a background check?” On the same day, he sent out a tweet stating firmly “FACT: Nearly 40% of all gun sales don’t require a background check under current law. #DemandAction”
The only thing wrong with the President’s repetitive 40% statements is that they aren’t true. Not only is the number two decades out of date, but it probably wasn’t even true two decades ago, because it was derived from an extremely small – and therefore statistically suspect – sample size, and didn’t reflect current background check law. Even the Washington Post’s fact-checker has called the number into question:

There are two key problems with the president’s use of this statistic: The numbers are about two decades old, yet he acts as if they are fresh, and he refers to “purchases” or “sales” when in fact the original report concerned “gun acquisitions” and “transactions.” Those are much broader categories of data.

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This study was based on data collected from a survey in 1994, the same year that the Brady Act requirements for background checks came into effect. In fact, the questions concerned purchases in 1993 and 1994, and the Brady Act went into effect in early 1994 — meaning that some, if not many, of the guns were bought in a pre-Brady environment.
Digging deeper, we found that the survey sample was just 251 people. (The survey was done by telephone, using a random-digit-dial method, with a response rate of 50 percent.) With this sample size, the 95 percent confidence interval will be plus or minus six percentage points.
Moreover, when asked whether the respondent bought from a licensed firearms dealer, the possible answers included “probably was/think so” and “probably not,” leaving open the possibility the purchaser was mistaken. (The “probably not” answers were counted as “no.”)

When the Washington Post, a reliable Democrat shill, calls the President’s rhetoric into question, you know he’s lying. Nevertheless, even more reliably Leftist organizations scolded the Washington Post for daring to deviate from Leftist orthodoxy. Mediaite, an extreme Left internet site, wrote that “While slagging the president may be good for business, the effect of (the newspaper’s) false ruling is to undermine legitimate efforts to keep the public safe, and to obscure the real enemy of reliable data on gun violence.” Mediaite’s only problem with this statement is that it lacks data to back up its rebuttal. Whoops.
We know that the Left generally and the administration specifically will do anything (including selling out U.S. interests to the United Nations) and say anything (including calling all American veterans insane) if that will help push the gun control agenda. It’s therefore up to us to be vigilant and to speak the truth.