Freitag, New York Times Linda Qiu, a “fact-checker”, evaluated the claims of Sen. Ted Cruz as well as former President Donald Trump during the NRA convention. Her nitpicking of Cruz as “misleading” and “exaggerating” was especially selective and shape-shifting at a time when the media is railing against Republicans for opposing gun controls. Qiu had 3 complaints. This was the first.
WHAT WAS SAYED?
“Gun bans do not work. Chicago is an example. If they worked, Chicago wouldn’t be the murder hellhole that it has been for far too long.” — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas
It’s misleading. Chicago is often cited by opponents to firearm restrictions as a model for why strict gun laws are not enough to stop homicides. This argument, however, relies on faulty assumptions about the city’s gun laws and gun violence.
In 2020 there were more gun deaths in Chicago than any other U.S. metro area, resulting in the perception of Chicago as the nation’s gun violence capital. Chicago is, however, the third-largest US city. Adjusted by population, the gun homicide rate was 25.2 per 100,000, the 26th highest in the country in 2020, according to data compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
It’s funny to protest “the perception that the gun violence capital is the city with most gun deaths.” Qiu believes you should consider Gary in Indiana. Gary had 49 murders but an even higher rate of homicide. rate. Dad says, “If the Qiu does not fit, select a different one.”
Was the second one true? Qiu took on Cruz claiming “the Department of Justice examined the effect of the ban and concluded it had zero statistically significant effect on violent crime.”
Qiu declared that this was the right thing.Exaggerated,“because the study foundThat, if renewed, “the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be It is small, at the best, but not enough to allow for accurate measurement.” as assault weapons were rarely used in the crimes. You can’t reliably measure the effect of zero, but it is an exaggeration. Somehow Cruz was “missing context.” One of the authors from her study told her that Cruz had been misunderstood in 2018.
Third complaint: Cruz said that “in 1972, the US per capita gun ownership rate was 43 percent.” It is now 42 percent. The rate of gun ownership hasn’t changed. And yet acts of evil like we saw this week are on the rise.”
The court ruled in favor of this. “Misleading”Qiu decided that she did not like this method of measuring again. “The per capita number of guns in the United States roughly doubled from 1968 to 2012, according to the Congressional Research Service.” He said that this was not true.
Then Qiu finished by making Cruz’s point, that another study shows the percentage of households owning guns has gone DOWN! “Historical surveys from the University of Chicago research center NORC show, however, that the percentage of American households that own guns has decreased from about half in the 1970s to about a third in recent years.”
In the end, liberal journalists claiming conservative leaders are “misleading” or “exaggerating” when it’s actually just liberals….”disagreeing.” Liberals don’t like conservative arguments, so they have to suggest “fact checkers” will get their credibility questioned and their audience reduced on social media.
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