Caught Michael Savage taking stats about gun control/state killings from a CHAIN MAIL! [View all]

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(My comments concern the part starting 1:15.)

In his opening segment of last Friday's Savage Nation, host Michael Savage criticized Rep. Jerrold Nadler's call for more gun law after the Newtown school shooting. He then began listing stats claiming that countries that instituted gun control later committed mass murders. Such as: "In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated."

I did a google search...Snopes.com has a page designating those stats as part of a chain mail and is currently reviewing the presented info. (The participants at the Snopes message board are also breaking down those claims.)

Bummer. This kind of lazy "scholarship" the week after a rather sensible commentary on 12/14 criticizing those who hoard guns?

And also that day he advocated banning those on psych meds from owning guns