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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (912168)1/5/2016 11:23:06 AM
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If you don't plan on suicide or live in a gang infested ghetto, guns are just a slightly bigger risk for you than lightning:

President Obama‘s press secretary cited “30,000 gun deaths in America” as the reason his boss should end-run Congress to implement new gun controls–but he omitted a key fact.

Press Secretary John Earnest answered a reporter’s question if there was any opposition to the president’s plan to take executive action to close a so-called “gun show loophole” while making private gun sales more difficult for citizens. Looking down at his talking points, he started reeling off statistics about gun deaths, police shot, and other violent crimes committed with guns.

But he missed the part where 20,000 of those gun deaths were by suicide, according to Washington D.C. reporter Emily Miller of FOX5 News and author of “Emily Gets Her Gun.”

Emily Miller

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White House says 30,000 annual "gun deaths." FACT: FBI says 8,124 homicides by gun. CDC cites 21,175 suicide by gun.
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Slightly different numbers here ... but they change every year:



Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/01/05/reporter-destroys-wh-press-secretary-on-gun-control-for-leaving-out-key-fact-291181?hvid=2GXyw9#ixzz3wNauG7uA
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