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Washington Post flays Obama for ‘strange’ gun claims

Washington Post flays Obama for ‘strange’ gun claims ‘Comment appears to have no statistical basis’ President Obama’s recent gun-related claims have come under fire by factcheckers, with the Washington Post specifically giving him three-of-four “Pinocchios” for saying U.S. homicide rates exceed those of other industrial nations by a wide margin. Obama’s comment in South Carolina, last week: “What we have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrial countries. I mean, by like a mile.” The takeaway message to the Benedict College town hall attendees was that the United States had the highest… View Article