{"id":73347,"date":"2021-10-20T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73347"},"modified":"2021-10-20T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:05:03","slug":"73347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73347","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When dishonesty is their stock in trade, it&#8217;s only logical to conclude these people want to disarm you because they want to do something they know they would likely be shot for.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/ranjit-singh\/2021\/10\/19\/everytown-lies-their-tongues-off-with-claim-on-child-and-teen-deaths-n51100\">Everytown Lies Their Tongues Off With Claim on Child and Teen Deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everytown is one of the largest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/11\/26\/bloomberg-vs-nra-huge-donation-lifts-gun-safety-groups-revenue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep-pocketed<\/a>\u00a0anti-Bill of Rights organizations out there. They do serious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/power-lists\/2021\/08\/new-york-state-top-50-lobbyists-2021\/184834\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbying<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everytownlaw.org\/report\/nysrpa-v-bruen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">litigation<\/a>. Their \u201creporting\u201d arm is\u00a0<i>The Trace<\/i>, a publication whose bias should be obvious from who is buttering their bread.<\/p>\n<p>Everytown has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/bobowens-bearingarms\/2016\/12\/16\/everytown-gun-safety-caught-lying-school-shootings-n28378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documented<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/jennjacques\/2016\/04\/17\/everytown-psa-lies-disguised-comedy-n25219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/bobowens-bearingarms\/2014\/05\/19\/everytown-gun-control-speaker-apparently-caught-lie-airport-spitting-incident-n19072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/bobowens-bearingarms\/2016\/12\/16\/audit-everytowns-200-school-shootings-since-sandy-hook-n28364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lying<\/a>\u00a0to advance their cause. Those of us on the pro-Rights side are jaded by their behavior, but if you thought that their boldness and daring in peddling falsehoods had peaked, you would be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, Everytown posted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everytown\/status\/1427359050308767745?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd192aWRlb19wb3J0YWxzXzEyMzU2Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Imxvb3BpbmciLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo1fX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1427359050308767745&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbearingarms.com%2Franjit-singh%2F2021%2F10%2F19%2Feverytown-lies-their-tongues-off-with-claim-on-child-and-teen-deaths-n51100&amp;sessionId=44c21ee83868fad23750a8d7ddfdc9e77b667b32&amp;siteScreenName=BearingArmsCom&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1427359050308767745\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFirearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in America ages 0-19. Our kids shouldn\u2019t have to die like this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in America? That sounded off, so I went straight to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/wisqars\/LeadingCauses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motherlode of statistics<\/a>: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC has a page where you can get detailed information on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/wisqars\/LeadingCauses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leading Causes of Death and Injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to get a quick answer, I checked out their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/wisqars\/LeadingCauses_images.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Leading Causes of Death and Injury<\/a>\u201d infographic images. For both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2018_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2017_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a>, the top cause of death is \u201cunintentional injury,\u201d not firearms, as Everytown claimed above. So, I dug in further to see if Everytown\u2019s claim was buried somewhere, and it was all just a misunderstanding. For both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_unintentional_2018_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_unintentional_2017_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a>, the top categories of \u201cunintentional injury\u201d were dominated by traffic accidents, drowning, and suffocation. So, again, I decided to give Everytown the benefit of the doubt and dug into an even smaller subset of \u201cviolence-related injury deaths.\u201d And yet again, for both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_violence_2018_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/images\/lc-charts\/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_violence_2017_1100w850h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a>, I found that the top causes were dominated by traffic accidents, drowning, and suffocation. Firearms were clearly not the \u201cleading cause of death\u201d as Everytown claimed.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the infographic images were not providing the accurate picture because the range of years covered (2017-18) was too narrow?<\/p>\n<p>So, to be sure, I ran a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wisqars.cdc.gov\/data\/lcd\/home?lcd=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%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom report<\/a>\u00a0on the \u201cTen Leading Causes of Death.\u201d This report includes all the data available from 2001\u20132019. Once again, I didn\u2019t see firearms as the leading cause in the report data. Drilling down, the same pattern of traffic accidents, drowning, and suffocation persisted. For the 15-24 age range, poisoning made a cameo; diving into that revealed that drug overdoses are listed as poisoning and were the leading cause of death in the poisoning category.<\/p>\n<p>What if the above report was inaccurate because the age groups were too broad? After all, the CDC\u2019s 15+ range went from 15-year-olds all the way to 24-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>So, I ran another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wisqars.cdc.gov\/fatal-leading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom report<\/a>, this one covering data from 1999\u20132019. (Note that this custom report was not available for 2001\u20132019.) Under the \u201cAdvanced Options,\u201d I was able to set a custom age range from \u201c&lt;1\u201d to 19, which was the age range that Everytown claimed in their tweet. Yet again over this 20-year period, unintentional injury deaths (184,060) \u2013 the top cause \u2013 were almost 3.5 times higher than homicides (53,628), and almost twice as high than homicides and suicides (44,595) combined. Homicides and suicides included all means, not just those committed using firearms. Again, this report didn\u2019t substantiate Everytown\u2019s claim. Out of curiosity, I limited the age range from \u201c&lt;1\u201d to 17, because 18- and 19-year-olds are voting-age adults; homicides and suicides dropped even lower with these criteria.<\/p>\n<p>I still wasn\u2019t giving up on Everytown; what if I messed up somehow and Everytown was actually correct. So, I ran a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wisqars.cdc.gov\/fatal-leading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final report<\/a>\u00a0with the data the CDC has going back to the 1981\u20131998 period. And yet again, unintentional injury deaths (257,110) vastly outnumbered homicides (60,768) and suicides (38,215); note that the homicide and suicide numbers include all means, firearms, cutting instruments, blunt objects\u2026 you name it.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the CDC\u2019s reports and readily available infographics, I was not able to substantiate Everytown\u2019s claim. If Everytown has any data that\u2019s not conjured out of thin air, they need to come clean and disclose it. Until then, their deliberate misinformation needs to be stopped by those of us on the pro-Rights side, using free speech and facts, not by calling for censoring or silencing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When dishonesty is their stock in trade, it&#8217;s only logical to conclude these people want to disarm you because they want to do something they know they would likely be shot for. 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