4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year

[Papa_Tiger]

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm ... ublic-guns

Some decent investigative reporting into the CDC and UT claim that 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.

It appears that words might actually have meaning. If you change the words associated with a statistic, it changes the meaning and leads to a misrepresentation of the truth.

[philip964]

I'm over 60. The only guns I've ever seen fired were at a range.

I was 16 the first time I ever saw a gun fired. I've never even seen a gun fired at an animal, let alone a human.

To say that 1 in 24 children is exposed to a shooting of a human in a one year period is absurd, just on the face.

[bblhd672]

Easy to believe if it fits into your agenda

[Pariah3j]

More proof that current day mainstream media doesn't fact check and runs fast and loose with anything that supports their agenda. I mean they can always do a retraction in the back of the newspaper, or a 5-second apology on air the one time even though the news piece was on repeat for the last 2 days.

While I understand that mistakes happen, things come to light and need to be corrected - it should be the exception that retractions have to happen but they seem to be all too prevalent these days.

[flechero]

Easy to believe if it fits into your agenda

Or if your sample group is in Chicago proper.

[jkurtz]

I ran across this article that explained what the original study asked, how it was misrepresented by CDC-UT researchers, and then published with false information.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm ... ublic-guns

[uthornsfan]

I would believe that more than 4.2% of children have witnessed a shooting so long as they watch atleast an hour of TV a day.