'Severe abuse of statistics': Hillary Clinton caught lying about guns (again)

Doug P. | 3:39 PM on April 11, 2016

https://twitter.com/AngryAppalachia/status/719600685118013440

Hillary Clinton’s taken a new approach when it comes to presenting gun stats in order to attempt to pin crimes in New York on Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont:

Clinton: "The state that has the highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in NY come from Vermont."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) April 11, 2016

First of all:

"Guns that end up committing crimes" hahaha https://t.co/ScOBW048Hs

— Vicky (@lettuceflea) April 11, 2016

Also note the “guns that end up committing crimes” line. https://t.co/5Galhs1Ls4

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 11, 2016

https://twitter.com/Rickersam2/status/719596644317007872

Hillary better call for those guns to be thrown in jail!

Then there’s Clinton’s “per capita” approach:

is this true? I remember Bloomberg going after Va for this https://t.co/JYQO4TjpsB

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) April 11, 2016

You don't have to be a mathematics major to know that this is a severe abuse of statistics. https://t.co/C4eMFtMTCA

— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) April 11, 2016

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/719595092810588160

Note the meaningless “per capita” filter, which she has to use to hit Sanders because without it this isn’t true. https://t.co/5Galhs1Ls4

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 11, 2016