AP FACT CHECK: NRA speakers distort gun and crime statistics
AP FACT CHECK: NRA speakers distort firearm with every one other accompanied by crime statistics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speakers at the National Rifle Association yearly gathering assailed a Chicago firearm ban that doesn't exist, ignored safety upgrades at the Texas educational organization where children were slaughtered with every one other accompanied by roundly distorted national firearm with every one other accompanied by crime statistics while they pushed spine opposed to some tightening of firearm laws.
A look at some of the claims:
TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ: "Gun bans do not work. Look at Chicago. If they worked, Chicago wouldn't exist the murder hellhole that it has been for a lengthy way excessively long."
THE FACTS: Chicago hasn't had a ban on handguns for over a decade. And inside 2014, a confederate judge overturned the city's ban on firearm shops. Big supporters of the NRA, exist fond of Cruz, may well know this, specified that it was the NRA that sued Chicago over its elderly handgun ban with every one other accompanied by argued the instance earlier to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled the ban unconstitutional inside 2010.
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FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: "Classroom doors should exist hardened to build them lockable from the inside with every one other accompanied by closed to intruders from the outside."
THE FACTS: As commonsensical while that strength sound, it could backfire inside a horrific way, experts warn.
A lock on the classroom door is one of the most basic with every one other accompanied by widely recommended educational organization safety measures. But inside Uvalde, it kept victims inside with every one other accompanied by police out.
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Nearly 20 officers stood inside a hallway external outside of the classrooms educational organization for additional than 45 minutes earlier to agents used a lord answer to not shut the classroom's locked door.
And Trump's proposal doesn't lay clasp of into description what would occur if class members were trapped behind a locked door with every one other accompanied by one of the students was the aggressor inside future attacks.
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CRUZ: "The percentage of firearm ownership hasn't changed."
THE FACTS: This is misleading. The percentage of U.S. households accompanied by at least one firearm inside the place of residence hasn't significantly changed over the past 50 years. But the number of assault-type rifles, exist fond of the one used inside the Uvalde educational organization shooting with every one other accompanied by dozens of other educational organization shootings, has skyrocketed since legislators permit a 1994 ban on such weapons expire inside 2004.
In the years leading up to with every one other accompanied by following that ban, an estimated 8.5 million AR-platform rifles were inside circulation inside the United States. Since the ban was lifted, the rifles — called "modern sporting rifles" by the manufacturing — have surged inside popularity. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated there were almost 20 million inside circulation inside 2020.
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CRUZ: "Had Uvalde gotten a permit to upgrade educational organization security, they strength have made changes that would have stopped the shooter with every one other accompanied by killed him there on the ground, earlier to he exist sore some of these guiltless kids with every one other accompanied by teachers."
THE FACTS: This claim overlooks the fact that Uvalde had doubled its school-security budget with every one other accompanied by spent years upgrading the protections for schoolchildren. None of that stopped the gunman who killed 19 pupils with every one other accompanied by set of two teachers.
Annual neighbourhood budgets show the educational organization system went from spending $204,000 inside 2017 to $435,000 for this year. The neighbourhood had developed a safety scheme spine inside 2019 that included staffing the schools accompanied by quartet officers with every one other accompanied by quartet counselors. It had installed a fence with every one other accompanied by invested inside a program that monitors communal media for threats with every one other accompanied by purchased software to screen educational organization visitors.
The permit that Cruz claims would have been life-saving was from a failed 2013 invoice that planned to assist schools hire additional armed officers with every one other accompanied by place bulletproof doors. Uvalde's educational organization did have an officer nevertheless the human being wasn't on the campus at the hour dated the shooter entered the building. And, Cruz's call for bulletproof doors strength not have worked inside this case, specified that police were unable to breech the locked door of the classroom where the shooter murdered children with every one other accompanied by teachers.
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EDITOR'S NOTE — A look at the veracity of claims by political figures.
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