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<blockquote data-quote="jakerz" data-source="post: 2039135" data-attributes="member: 18966">I agree that the media misrepresents the stats. You see all the time that last year we had 30k deaths by firearms. What they don&#039;t say is that, 60% of those gun related deaths were suicide. People will twist numbers to get their point across.On Feinstein&#039;s site, she says, &quot;Maryland imposed a more stringent ban on assault pistols and high-capacity magazines in 1994, it led to a 55 percent drop in assault pistols recovered by the Baltimore Police Department.&quot; Really? Of course less of these firearms are going to be recovered by police if sales go down. That&#039;s common sense. What they should be reporting is that even with the 55% drop in assault pistols, violent crimes did not drop.Again, it seems like media sites will use the numbers they want, and disregard the ones that don&#039;t back up their initiative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jakerz, post: 2039135, member: 18966"] I agree that the media misrepresents the stats. You see all the time that last year we had 30k deaths by firearms. What they don't say is that, 60% of those gun related deaths were suicide. People will twist numbers to get their point across. On Feinstein's site, she says, "Maryland imposed a more stringent ban on assault pistols and high-capacity magazines in 1994, it led to a 55 percent drop in assault pistols recovered by the Baltimore Police Department." Really? Of course less of these firearms are going to be recovered by police if sales go down. That's common sense. What they should be reporting is that even with the 55% drop in assault pistols, violent crimes did not drop. Again, it seems like media sites will use the numbers they want, and disregard the ones that don't back up their initiative. [/QUOTE]

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