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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
For Immediate Release: U.S. NewsWire -- Full National
Circuit distribution
Text Length: 376 words
Date: March 6, 2000
Contact: Aaron Zelman, Executive Director
Jews for the Preservation of
Firearms Ownership, Inc.
Hartford, Wisconsin
Phone: (800) 869-1884
E-mail: jpfo@execpc.com
Website: www.jpfo.org
HCI Conceals Data to Mislead President, Press and
Public on Child Deaths
President Clinton, using Handgun Control Inc. (HCI)
figures, recently asserted that "13 kids" are killed by
guns each day in America. "That statement is
fraudulent," according to civil rights activist Aaron
Zelman. "Americans should demand full disclosure.
We're getting half-truths and lies."
Documents obtained from HCI reveal the deception:
the "13 kids" figure includes people "ages 19 and
under." Using that category, legal adults ages 18 and
19 are misleadingly counted as "kids." Zelman noted
"if a salesman sold you a home or car by giving you
doctored information, then you could sue him for fraud.
HCI is steering Clinton to defraud Americans using
trick data."
Using the deceptive HCI figures, the Clinton
administration claims that more victim disarmament laws
(euphemistically called "gun control") will save young
children's lives. Actual data from the National Center
for Health Statistics (NCSH) prove otherwise. Less
than 0.3% of all victims of lethal misuse of firearms
were children under 5 years of age. Less than .07% of
the total deaths from firearms misuse were accident
victims under age 5.
"Saying that toddlers are shooting one another with
guns is an outright lie," Zelman stated. "Americans
prevent crimes about 5,500 times per day using
firearms. HCI is concealing that fact."
NCSH reported firearms-related deaths in America
for 1997 totaling 32,436. There were 9 victims under
one year of age, 75 victims between one and four years
of age, and 546 victims between five and fourteen years
of age. These figures correspond to 0.03%, 0.23%, and
1.6%, respectively. "The true figures show that over
98% of people killed by firearms misuse are not young
children," Zelman observed.
So-called "gun safety devices" can have little or
no effect on firearms misuse. Linda Gorman, a
researcher at the Independence Institute, recently
concluded that "most of the proposed 'safe storage'
measures can be defeated by 15-year-olds." Devices
such as mandatory trigger locks would not "have much
effect on suicides or homicides in older age groups,"
Gorman noted.
Darrell Huff, author of How to Lie With Statistics,
wrote that "a well-wrapped statistic is better than
Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be
pinned on you." Zelman vowed his organization would
"pin these false stats on the people who try to fool
the American public."
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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
PO Box 270143
Hartford, Wisconsin 53027
Phone: 262-673-9745
Orders only: 1-800-869-1884 (toll-free!)
Fax: 262-673-9746
Web: http://www.jpfo.org/
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