BUSTED: Bloomberg’s “The Trace” Intentionally Misrepresents Defensive Gun Uses

By Bob Owens

Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs) are a relatively well-known fact of life in the United States, with various studies estimating from between an improbably low 55,000 DGUs on the low end, to an impossibly high 4.7 DGUs on the upper end of the spectrum.

It’s highly amusing, then, to see Michael Bloomberg’s gun control “news” site The Trace attempting to manufacture a laughably dishonest and much smaller low-end figure than even the most rabid of gun control groups

Clearly, the integrity of “reporters” Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes can be purchased quite cheaply.

Recently, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has brought the notion into the 2016 campaign. “If you’re a single mom living in a tough neighborhood, the Second Amendment protects your right, that if someone comes through the window trying to harm your kids,” he said in an April appearance on Good Morning America. “You have a right to be armed to protect your family.”

By at least one measure, the message seems to be persuasive: 56 percent of female gun owners believe that having a gun makes the home a safer place, according to a recent survey conducted by Marie Claire; among women in general, 20 percent …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms