{"id":63774,"date":"2017-07-12T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63774"},"modified":"2017-07-11T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:44:55","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-they-think-youre-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63774","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always: They Think You’re Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further evidence of the statement “”Protect” Minnesota has never – not once – made a statement that was simultaneously substantial, original and true” came to us yesterday in the form of a press release from their “Research Director”, the onimatopaiec Richard Gigler.<\/p>\n

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Gigler is reading the same numbers I related to you a couple weeks ago, showing that crime has dropped sharply across Minnesota in the last year.<\/p>\n

But the takeaway from any given type of evidence depends on a lot of things; in this case, whether one is inept at statistics, or one represents a group that pathologically lies about gun owners and knows their audience isn’t smart enough to know they’re being lied to.<\/p>\n

In this case, as “evidence” that “more guns don’t mean more safety”, Gigler notes that the percentage of homicides committed by guns “…rose by 1%” \u00a0 Of course, they didn’t; they rose by two thirds of a percent, and even that is a statistical anomaly caused by\u00a0the drop in overall homicides<\/em>, not a hike in gun homicides (which, as we noted, dropped 23% in the past year!).<\/p>\n

But the lie-via-incompetence is worse than that – because the number of homicides dropped, and the percentage of homicides involving a gun “rose” as a fluke of statistical background noise…<\/p>\n

…as the number of guns in law-abiding civilians hands rose sharply, and the number of carry permittees hit record numbers.<\/p>\n

Meaning that the percentage of guns used in crimes\u00a0dropped<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Again.<\/p>\n

Why do you suppose it is that “Protect” Minnesota can’t tell the truth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further evidence of the statement “”Protect” Minnesota has never – not once – made a statement that was simultaneously substantial, original and true” came to us yesterday in the form of a press release from their “Research Director”, the onimatopaiec Richard Gigler. Gigler is reading the same numbers I related to you a couple weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-lie-first"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63776,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63774\/revisions\/63776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}