Reply #67: Agreed. If you google news "NRA CDC"......

[Jackson1999]

The first link is "Is NRA part of the problem in counting the shootings?" If you click on it, it is dead, of course. It would have been better if she put her apology on that link. Instead, she posts it to another section and has it closed for comments.

I don't want to beat up on her too much on that right now, however. I'll take her admitting she was wrong as a small victory for now.

I think the bigger victory, however, is that she probably learned her lesson about the VPC. As you probably know, their strategy is to come out and say something totally untrue, with the (correct) assumption that no matter how outrageous a lie, there will be some people who believe it. The other strategy is to use language that they KNOW will be misrepresented when repeated (kind of like the telephone game). "90% of guns traced in Mexico come from the US" becomes "90% of the guns in Mexico come from the US", and "3,000 children and teens are killed by gun violence" becomes "3000 children are killed by gun violence."

One of the big differences now vs. 1994 is the Internets. I used to be pro-gun control and accept such statements, relying on the media to vet the info. Now, of course, I realize how wrong I was.