We haven’t read the story yet, but we’re making guesses as to which gun control group conducted this study and how it went about it. One in five U.S. adults has lost a family member to gun violence? What do they mean by “family member”? This editor is old enough to remember when the Weekly World News ran a headline connecting Bill Cosby and Mikhail Gorbachev as distant cousins, making the point that anyone can be connected to anyone with enough steps. Is your great-aunt’s second cousin you’ve never met a family member?
One in five US adults has had a family member killed by a gun: study https://t.co/z03W3bWsuh pic.twitter.com/onOVxDyWqW
— New York Post (@nypost) April 11, 2023
They must have done this “poll” in Chicago.
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) April 11, 2023
Olivia Land reports:
Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun, a disturbing new study revealed Tuesday.
The troubling statistic included death by suicide, according to the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The study also found that people of color were disproportionately impacted by gun violence, with three in 10 black adults and one-fifth of Hispanic respondents saying they have witnessed someone being shot.
Thirty-four percent of black adults reported having a family member who was killed by a firearm, or two times the share of white adults who said the same.
“Despite these concerns, the study found that 41 percent of participants said they lived in a household with guns.” What do you mean, despite these concerns? It’s because of these concerns.
LMAO, mathematics is hard y'all.
331,002,651 people in the US, 77.9% or 258.3 million are "adults".
That's 51,660,000 people who "supposedly" have had a family member killed by a gun.
See the problem here. https://t.co/VXRM9DFj1L
— Claude Krause (@ClaudesBBQ) April 11, 2023
So the issue is that if you have tons of cousins, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, and parents or offspring, and you're shot and killed, that's a lot of people with a family member who was killed with a gun.
It's basically a meaningless statistic.
— Sgt K 'Charge Your Paddles' Onyx (@SgtKOnyx) April 11, 2023
"50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke." All complete horseshit.
— Rudi_with_a_Permit (@toxicAmeriCAN) April 11, 2023
It’s a number that’s designed to make people feel a certain way so they have the “correct” attitude about disarmament
— Amerigo the Red™️ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@AmerigoFreedo) April 11, 2023
1 in 5? We need to do something about these leftwing extremists that keep shooting people
— aka (@akafacehots) April 11, 2023
No they haven't.
Now do fentanyl.
— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) April 11, 2023
Ben Shapiro earlier alerted us to the new term “drug workers” — like how prostitution became sex work? Dealing fentanyl now makes you a drug worker.
— AnneMarie 🌸 (@RealAnneMarieC) April 11, 2023
I know NOBODY anywhere in my family and community that fits your description. This needs fact checked!
— 🇺🇸ColonelMAGAMark🇺🇸 (@ColonelMark4) April 11, 2023
One in five adults ratio'd this tweet.
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) April 11, 2023
This sounds way off.
— Sir Paul Alves (@StarshipAlves) April 11, 2023
I remember how I cried when my 4th great grandpa was shot to death in 1867
— The Waco Kid (@TheWacoKid8) April 11, 2023
My father-in-law finally died in the 90s as a result of wounds inflicted by a Japanese sniper in Okinawa. Does that count?
— Tuco (@TucoSalamanca57) April 11, 2023
This isn't mathematically possible.
— Nicco (@harambe_fren) April 11, 2023
What’s this like Toy Story? The guns come to life when we aren’t looking?
— Quite Frankly (@PoliticalOrgy) April 11, 2023
It includes death by suicide. CNN actually mentioned suicide in their tweet.
— Charly Root (@charly_root) April 11, 2023
Why not say it was a targeted poll with a sample size of less than 2,000 people? Oh I know why. Because nobody would read it. You just buried that link to the research poll at the bottom. I guess ethics no longer exist in journalism.
— Michael Canter of Cubs Insider ✨ (@MEdwardCanter) April 11, 2023
— Frick (@FrickmyMan) April 11, 2023
Your source is the Kaiser Family Foundation 😒
— Greg Blaire 🇺🇸 (@greg_blaire) April 11, 2023
We’re really kind of surprised the New York Post picked up and ran with this the way they did, sprinkling their article with photo after photo of grieving people consoling each other.
This editor had an uncle who lost an arm in a hunting accident and died many years later of old age … does that count?
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BRO, do you even Common Core?! Kyle Kashuv SCHOOLS Sen. Chris Murphy when his ‘gun deaths’ math doesn’t add up https://t.co/hqGuPQFZe0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 4, 2018
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