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The article is extremely short on data related to the headline, and in fact it's just a tiny blurb in the introductory paragraph. Would love to read more about
by CincinnatiMan 6y ago
The article is extremely short on data related to the headline, and in fact it's just a tiny blurb in the introductory paragraph. Would love to read more about these stats.
On an unrelated note, the person being interviewed really expresses a binary world view of left vs right with no in between, which is discouraging.
- TrispusAttucks 6y agoRight! The hypocrisy is totally lost on the interviewee.
- sndean 6y agoI think the article and this Brookings article (which has some graphs) [0] are talking about the same data. It's based on the number of background checks by NICS [1]. Out of the top ten highest weeks for background checks, nine were in 2020/2021, the other was in 2012 [2]. A month after Obama was reelected? Not sure what else was going on in December 2012. [0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/13/three-million-more-guns-the-spring-2020-spike-in-firearm-sales/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/13/three-mil... [1] https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics [2] https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_top_10_highest_days_weeks.pdf/view https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_top_...