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Fyala Fyala Mwedzi

Lies and Statistics

February 21, 2008
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They say that every year since 1950, the number of American children gunned down as double. Good evidence. But as Thomas Sol has pointed out, if that were true and you started with just two children in 1950, and doubled it every year, two billion children would have been gunned down by now. In other words, we would have killed more than four times the total population of the United States since 1950. The problem with that lie and those statistics is that when there are real statistics pointing to real problems, nobody's going to believe there's a problem. A child being gunned down is a horrible thing, and that's enough to say. When a culture gets so tall as to real tragedy, you have to shock with lies. That says something about the culture as well as the liar. I'm Steve Brown, a key life network. You think about that. Visit Key Life on the Internet at keylife.org.