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Violence Policy Center Study Bunk

author Posted by:Sebastian on date Aug 7th, 2007 | filed Filed under: Anti-Gun Folks

A few days ago I linked to a VPC study that purported to rank states by number of drive by shootings. While I linked to it in such a way as to not take it seriously, it would appear that, perhaps because they lack the funding to conduct a proper study, that VPC determined this through creative Google searching! I couldn’t make this shit up folks.

Stick a fork in them. The VPC is done.

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tag5 Responses to “Violence Policy Center Study Bunk”

  1. The Bitch Girls :: Googling for Violence Said,
    August 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am

    [...] how much fun it must be to lose your credibility. A few days ago I linked to a VPC study that purported to rank states by number of drive by [...]

  2. SayUncle » Another alleged gun study from the Violence Policy Center goes *poof* Said,
    August 7th, 2007 at 8:59 am

    [...] drive by shootings. Turns out this fine piece of academic excellence was based on Google searches. Sebastian notes that they likely did the study this way because they have no money. Bitter says: Violence [...]

  3. Jay Said,
    August 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    Well, I gotta hand it to VPC. Most of the rabid anti-gunners simply make up stats, so I applaud the VPC for at least pretending to design a constructive study that would make any researcher, no matter how liberal, laugh in scorn.

    Maybe we should Google how many times these clowns have been called a POS and issue rankings to determine the worst POS in the anti-gunner community.

  4. Brett Bellmore Said,
    August 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    It’s only to be expected that they’d be running out of money; Anti-gun organizations that *admit* to being anti-gun are so pre-1994, and with Josh Sugarman at the helm, the VPC has been the antithesis of a stealth anti-gun front organization. Half my favorite quotes proving that they really *are* out to get our guns come from Josh, after all.

    All the money today is going to fronts like AGS or the AHSA, that pretend to be pro-gun, but “reasonable”.

  5. Bitter Said,
    August 7th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

    I think you might want to update your info on AGS, Brett. AGS doesn’t even exist anymore. Their staff had to absorbed into another group in order to continue operation. They don’t use the name anymore, they are just one policy division.