{"id":89553,"date":"2023-01-25T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89553"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:57:05","slug":"89553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89553","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t say she purposefully<\/em> lying. She just likes that paycheck too much to actually do any research on her own for the facts of the matter.
\nShe reads from out of a notebook that has all the approved answers for probable questions already provided for her. And if it doesn’t have an answer for her to parrot, she always uses one of two or three standard ‘boilerplate’ deferrals she’s memorized.<\/p>\n

FACT CHECK: WH Press Sec. Falsely Claims \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban Reduced Mass Shootings<\/a><\/p>\n

CLAIM<\/strong>: White house press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the result of the 1994-2004 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban was that \u201cmass shootings went down.\u201d<\/p>\n

VERDICT<\/strong>: False.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre opened Tuesday\u2019s press conference by talking about the mass shootings that have been occurring in California, the state that has more gun control than any other state in the Union.<\/p>\n

Ironically, one of California\u2019s gun controls is an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Jean-Pierre pushed for an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban at the federal level,\u00a0saying<\/a>, \u201cThe last time we had an \u2018assault weapons\u2019 ban on the books, thanks to the President and Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u2019s (D-CA) leadership, mass shootings actually went down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre\u2019s claim is 180 degrees out of sync with the information discovered and published by the Department of Justice\u2019s National Institute of Justice (NIJ).<\/p>\n

Breitbart News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0the NIJ\u2019s findings, which were originally published just as the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban was coming to an end. The NIJ made clear that\u00a0the ban could not be credited with any reduction in crime.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Times<\/em>\u00a0quoted<\/a>\u00a0University of Pennsylvania professor Christopher Koper, author of the NIJ report, saying, \u201cWe cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation\u2019s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NIJ report continued, \u201cThe ban\u2019s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.\u201d It\u00a0put matters into perspective by pointing out that \u201cassault weapons\u201d were \u201crarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breitbart News\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0on January 18, 2013, that \u201c\u2019assault weapons\u2019 were tied to less than .012 per cent of overall deaths in America in recent years (2011)\u201d. This point is poignant, in light of the NIJ report showing \u201cassault weapons\u201d were \u201crarely used\u201d in crime to begin with. The guns are bulky and difficult to conceal, making them a bad choice for criminals seeking to avoid detection.<\/p>\n

Also, the January 21 Monterey Park attacker\u00a0used<\/a>\u00a0a pistol, and NBC Bay Area\u2019s Christine Ni noted that the January 23 Half Moon Bay attacker appears to have\u00a0used<\/a>\u00a0a handgun as well.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre\u2019s claim that the 1994-2004 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban reduced mass shootings does not square with the Department of Justice\u2019s NIJ report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t say she purposefully lying. She just likes that paycheck too much to actually do any research on her own for the facts of the matter. She reads from out of a notebook that has all the approved answers for probable questions already provided for her. And if it doesn’t have an answer for … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89563,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89553\/revisions\/89563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}