I am sure most of you are aware of the gun debate of the Swiss considering removing their long standing tradition of training people and sending them home with 5o rnds and their rifle.
I don’t know if the Brady Group et al are helping the anti gun agenda of some Swiss anti gun groups, but I can tell you they are using Brady tactics, which is to say they are simply inventing “facts” and data that simply don’t exist.
I was just listening to the BBC about the “Swiss gun issue” and they stated that (1) the only country with higher suicide rates than the Swiss is the US* and (2) at least once per month on average a Swiss citizen takes his army issued assault rifles and kills his entire family.
I kid you not, and I am not paraphrasing either, They stated exactly that. We know the first claim is wrong, and easy to prove wrong, and the second claim may be a little harder to confirm, but is clearly a fabrication.
So, inventing data/facts from thin air is alive and well. How these people sleep at night is a mystery to me, but there you have it….
* I have the distinct feeling what they meant to say was that the US had a higher rate of suicide using a gun as the method of suicide, but are either too stupid or too intellectually dishonest to make that distinction and assume once out there as “fact” via the media know it will be hard to correct.
I don’t know if the Brady Group et al are helping the anti gun agenda of some Swiss anti gun groups, but I can tell you they are using Brady tactics, which is to say they are simply inventing “facts” and data that simply don’t exist.
I was just listening to the BBC about the “Swiss gun issue” and they stated that (1) the only country with higher suicide rates than the Swiss is the US* and (2) at least once per month on average a Swiss citizen takes his army issued assault rifles and kills his entire family.
I kid you not, and I am not paraphrasing either, They stated exactly that. We know the first claim is wrong, and easy to prove wrong, and the second claim may be a little harder to confirm, but is clearly a fabrication.
So, inventing data/facts from thin air is alive and well. How these people sleep at night is a mystery to me, but there you have it….
* I have the distinct feeling what they meant to say was that the US had a higher rate of suicide using a gun as the method of suicide, but are either too stupid or too intellectually dishonest to make that distinction and assume once out there as “fact” via the media know it will be hard to correct.