Posted April 25, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Politicians like to throw out numbers. Especially when they’re trying to make a point. It doesn’t even necessarily matter if the numbers are true, just so long as they’re big numbers.

The ballpark of a million is a good one. It’s sufficiently huge to be shocking, but small enough that in our nation it’s entirely possible that you’ll know absolutely no one it applies to. For example:

Nearly 1 million women in the U.S. alive today have been shot, or shot at, by an intimate partner. We’ve had too many tragedies for addressing gun violence to not be a priority. https://t.co/VTABuluSZn

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 24, 2019

But have they? National Review‘s Rober Verbruggen took a look. Here’s what he has to say on the topic:

The claim appears to come from this literature review, whose abstract indeed says that “the number of U.S. women alive today who have had an intimate partner use a gun against them is substantial: About 4.5 million have had an intimate partner threaten them with a gun and nearly 1 million have been shot or shot at by an intimate partner.”

But then I dug a little deeper. The review looks at …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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