Bloomberg has been lying, this is the commercial his front organization did:
The ad depicts two kids, initially engaging in an innocuous game of hide-and-go seek, that turns deadly when the young girl uncovers a family handgun and manages to remove the safety and fire the weapon.
After a pregnant pause, the ad tells the audience, “Scenes like this happen all the time.”
Yet even the liberals at NBC aren’t buying it:
Here is a chart highlighting the various causes of accidental child deaths in this country for 2010, per the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Unintentional_Deaths_2010-a.pdf
A child is defined as a person up to the age of 14.
After crunching the numbers, we found that the top four causes are as follows:
- Unintentional Motor Vehicle Traffic: 1,225 deaths
- Unintentional Suffocation: 1,118 deaths
- Unintentional Drowning: 726 deaths
- Unintentional Fire/Burn: 308 deaths
Unintentional death by firearm isn’t even listed among the top causes for any of the age brackets, other than 10-14, which saw 26 such deaths in 2010, the latest data.
Across all age groups, there were 62 kids who died in 2010 from unintentional gunfire. That figure is actually a noticeable drop from a decade earlier, when such deaths approached 90, according to the CDC.
So this begs the question, has Mayor Bloomberg been truthful? And would 62 annual deaths really qualify as “all the time?”
Source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/Mayor-Bloomberg-Ad-Claims-Gun-Accidents-Happen-All-The-Time-255740251.html
I would call 62 accidental child deaths from firearms in a single city – “all the time” – but spread across a massive country with a population of approximately 330,000,000 … no, that’s clearly a lie. It’s easily shown to be completely false by the stats NBC showed (which you provided above).
The problem with gun-grabbers and liberals in general is they lie constantly. Add the fact that they control the vast majority of popular media outlets which spread those lies, well then the truth becomes irrelevant to people who believe everything they are told.
Very few things happen all the time, anyway. Even car accidents don’t happen all the time, although they’re far more frequent than other events.
Pool drownings are also far more common than gun accidents, which is interesting since the number of Americans with swimming pools is a joke compared to Americans with guns.
You’re right, liberals lie constantly, they cherry pick statics, even manufacture them when they can’t get them. Bloomberg’s front group didn’t even have any sources, they had memes and crazy statements but nothing to back it up.
Our challenge is to reach the centrists and independents, bring them to our side.