I got a letter from the NRA today about some of the proposed laws that are being kicked around in the political ooze of California's legislative system. I already knew about most of them, but I decided to Google it to see if any news had come up since the last time I read about the bills' progression.
That's when I ran across this article: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/07/california-did-tough-gun-control-laws-cut-firearms-deaths/
I'm sure we all have our own feelings about this news network, but what I find incredibly amusing about this article is that it contradicts itself in the text while still supporting a politically biased opinion which is based on extremely flawed logic that is actually presented IN the article.
It reads:
Then later in the same article:
They are trying to convince their readers that California's gun laws are so fantastic, but then go on to say that the entire nation has been declining in gun related homicides. They also try to twist up words to confuse their readers by saying, "Gun violence across California dropped 56%", but the statistic they give is specifically for deaths in California. They then list 29.5% as nationwide gun violence decline. After that though, any attentive reader can see that they are dramatically over exaggerating the difference because they state that nationwide gun-related homicides have been cut nearly in half.
Political bias astounds me.
That's when I ran across this article: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/07/california-did-tough-gun-control-laws-cut-firearms-deaths/
I'm sure we all have our own feelings about this news network, but what I find incredibly amusing about this article is that it contradicts itself in the text while still supporting a politically biased opinion which is based on extremely flawed logic that is actually presented IN the article.
It reads:
Then later in the same article:
They are trying to convince their readers that California's gun laws are so fantastic, but then go on to say that the entire nation has been declining in gun related homicides. They also try to twist up words to confuse their readers by saying, "Gun violence across California dropped 56%", but the statistic they give is specifically for deaths in California. They then list 29.5% as nationwide gun violence decline. After that though, any attentive reader can see that they are dramatically over exaggerating the difference because they state that nationwide gun-related homicides have been cut nearly in half.
Political bias astounds me.
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