Originally posted by Morning_Glory
Are all the commercials going to be political
No but we had Mike Bloomberg running an anti-gun ad during the super bowl and I wonder if the media will fact check its lie?
It says 2,900 children die each year as a result of gun violence. This is false, the study used includes people from age 0 to age 19. 17, 18, and 19 yr. olds are not children and I'm dubious about counting 16 yr. olds as children too. The study also includes suicides in the total amount, which to me it is misleading to discuss gun violence and include suicides without saying you are including them(the ad does not). After all the *main* concern with guns is people using them to murder others. We should not conflate that with suicide.
The lie will not be fact checked.
Originally posted by walshy
Anything anti gun is alright in bookI saw a story on Twitter about a toddler that shot itself cause he found a gun
Obviously the owners fault but if there was no gun there's no dead toddler
I feel like you should look at the example you just gave. Isn't it horrible enough on its own? Very tragic. So wouldn't it be strange to try to amp it up? Perhaps lie about it? Would it be okay with you for people to say the toddler also accidentally shot and killed a sibling before shooting himself, even if it wasn't true?