As we told you yesterday, conservatives were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s claim that “The state that has the highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in NY come from 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
At issue is Clinton’s weaselly use of the word “per capita” to maker her point about the sparsely-populated Vermont.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/719595476190937088
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog called out Clinton for using “a misleading data point” and gave the former Secretary of State’s claim “Three Pinocchios.”
WaPo Fact Checker says Clinton's claim about guns from Vermont is "a misleading data point." https://t.co/ZbX4NRySHp
— Hannah Chanpong (@hannahfc) April 12, 2016
An excerpt:
We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios. Clinton has carefully crafted its talking point to find the particular government data that support her point, which gives a wildly different view than how trafficking flows are tracked. We do not find the per capita measure as a fair assessment of gun flows from Vermont into New York. The difference between this point using per capita calculation and the raw number (1 percent of crime guns with source states identified in 2014 came from Vermont) is so stark that it creates a significantly misleading impression to the public. Those factors tip to Three Pinocchios.
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