just cannot make this stuff up

Or, rather, you cannot make this kind of stuff up if you are not a member of the Violence Policy Center, which has been contining its age-old tendency of fabricating complete nonsense and passing it off as “facts”:

Would you trust the statistical and factual reporting acumen of an organization that can’t even tell the difference between someone being dead or alive?

No, this isn’t about the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia or the other bad actors of Climategate (though it could be). This is about a little organization that Barack built. Not ACORN (though it could be). This is about the Violence Policy Center (VPC), one of the gun-control organizations our B+ president helped fund as a board member of the left-wing Joyce Foundation.

For the past few months, the VPC has decided to target concealed carry permit holders as particularly bad, evil people. This approach is quite puzzling to anyone actually familiar with concealed carry permit holders, a group that tends to be a bit older, a bit whiter, and a bit more likely to buy Fleetwood Mac albums than most. As a subset of the citizenry, concealed carry permit holders are also more likely to be law-abiding that the general population.

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In its reporting, the VPC doesn’t restrict itself to reporting homicides committed by a permit holder drawing and firing his or her concealed weapon. Of the 85-person body count they claim (we’ll get back to that in a moment), concealed handguns only accounted for 30 of the fatalities.

Twenty-seven of the deaths were caused by rifles. One was a brutal beating. Another was a vicious strangling. Read again closely, dear reader. The Violence Policy Center isn’t trying to demonize the actual practice of carrying concealed handguns in its reporting; it is trying to demonize concealed carry permit holders.

Go forth and read the whole thing – this new example of anti-rights, hoplophobic fraud goes beyond simply being unable or unwilling to accurately count news reports, and ventures into the agenda-laden realm of reporting that a woman was shot and killed by her estranged husband when the woman in question is still walking and talking to this very day.
Did the liars at the VPC expect to get away with it? Did they honestly believe that people would not fact-check them, and point out where they publishing blatant falsehoods? Or, even worse yet, do they not see the problem with lying, or even that the lied at all?
I wonder what the VPC folks would do if Christine Burroughs, the woman in question, showed up on their doorstep with a copy of their report in-hand – acknowledging, quantifying, or even identifying reality does not seem to be one of their strong suits, and I would fear for their sanity…
As usual, if the anti-rights advocates of our world are so sure their position is the right one, why do they consistently and incessantly lie to and mislead the American public?
(Courtesy of SayUncle.)