by Lee Williams
Joe Biden flipflops on violent crime rates – sometimes they’re going up, sometimes they’re going down – depending on who is in the audience. He uses two vastly different data sources to create his mixed messages.
Biden cites FBI data when trying to convince voters that crime is not out of control, so they feel safe in their communities and reelect him to office. But when he panders to the gun-ban industry, advocates for an “assault weapon” ban, or announces yet another infringement of the Second Amendment as part of his ongoing war on guns, Biden cites mass-shooting data from the Gun Violence Archive.
To be clear, the Gun Violence Archive, which has been widely debunked, collects much more than just mass-shooting data, but Biden never uses any of these statistics. He only cherry-picks GVA’s mass-shooting data, for obvious reasons. The other data shows violent crime has exploded during his presidency – especially when compared to President Donald J. Trump’s term in office.
“Crime is either up or it’s down, but Joe wants to have it both ways, depending upon who he’s talking to,” said nationally syndicated talk radio host, Mark Walters, who first spotted the trend. “And it was only a matter of time before the rest of that GVA data came back to bite him.”
Nearly every type of shooting death tracked by the GVA over the past 10 years increased substantially after Biden took office: Deaths (willful, malicious and accidental), mass shootings, deaths of children (age 0-11, age 12-17), unintentional shootings and suicide by firearms all increased under the Bide-Harris administration.
GVA Data
Biden has always struggled with the truth. Whenever he wanders off script and speaks extemporaneously, he invents personal stories in which he assigns himself the starring role, which the corporate media usually ignores. But when the president’s falsehoods are actually signed and set into type, it’s a bit more serious.
In an editorial published May 14, 2023, by USA TODAY and reprinted in scores of newspapers across the country, Biden significantly lowered the presidential-truthfulness bar.
In the editorial, which was titled, “President Biden: I’m doing everything I can to reduce gun violence, but Congress must do more,” Biden stressed the need for more Red flag laws, advocated for universal background checks and called on Congress to ban “assault weapons” and standard-capacity magazines, stating: “For God’s sake, do something.”
But then there was this: “We need to do more. In the year after the Buffalo tragedy, our country has experienced more than 650 mass shootings and well over 40,000 deaths due to gun violence, according to one analysis.”
The hyperlink whisked readers to the Gun Violence Archive.
Founded in 2013, the GVA quickly became Biden’s source of choice for mass-shooting data because they hype the numbers. The small nonprofit came up with its own extremely broad definition of a mass shooting, which says anytime four or more people are killed or even slightly wounded with a firearm regardless of the circumstances, it’s a mass shooting. For example, according to the GVA there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more realistic definition, which excludes gang-related and drug-related shootings, which the GVA includes in its data.
Biden and his handlers have cited GVA’s mass-shooting data throughout his presidency in speeches, written statements and social media.
Well, one big Red Flag Law is that when we can’t vet an illegal immigrant coming from Venezuela, Mexico, the Middle East or China, we shouldn’t let them in the country. However, even though this is a very easy precaution, the criminal, incompetent, treasonous Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden regime ignores it and keeps letting people come in that keep murdering our citizens.
And Biden the Blunder wants to have us all Disarmed with Violent Crim going through the roof showing is not fit for the job