A few moments ago on "The Five" on Fox News, Bob Beckel stated "In Norway, there were only 500 murders last year, while in America there were 10,543. Norway restricts guns - case closed". So, according to Mr Beckel, we should restrict guns because it reduces murders.
But what Mr Beckel failed to mention is the most important statistic - the population of Norway is 4.9 million, while the population of America is 320 million. Therefore, the murder rate in Norway is actually three times higher than in America. In Norway, 1 in 10,000 get murdered, while in America only 1 in 30,000 gets murdered.
Perhaps Norway should stop restricting guns...
The point is, liberals who want bigger, more intrusive government and want to restrict our liberties and rights will purposely deceive you with accurate, yet misleading data - misleading because the data is incomplete. Whenever someone tries to convince you using statistics, always look deeper to see if there may be important data he is leaving out.
In this case, I emailed this to FOX and Greg Gutfeld & Judge Napolitano brought it to Mr. Beckel's attention. He huffed and hawed, and then true to liberal form, he denied that it made any difference.
I guess that's because of the "fuzzy math" that liberals use.
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