[Colonel_Flagg]

This article just drips with bias. Amazing.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

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[Fun Bob]

It is from al-Reuters. What do you expect? Sorry about the sourcing. It was the first full story I've seen on rejected ban referendum.

[B Knotts]

That's exactly what I thought when I started reading it.

How absurdly biased.

But, what do you expect from al-Reuters, y'know?

[pickrell]

Bias? Surely we all remember the article that they ran opposite to this one on the same page. It details the 1- million-plus gun-related deaths in the onion fields of Cambodia in 1975, suffered by those who owned no guns. I certainly remember, as Paul Harvey would phrase it, "...the rest of the story..."

Sorry, I was mistaken, I guess they didn't run that story, after all.

[pickrell]

But then, I just know they simultaneously ran the story of the 400 thousand Tutsis who were hacked to death in machete-related violence against those who owned no guns in Rwanda.

Or, am I mistaken there too? Forget my own head next...

[coloradan]

From Reuters? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I tell you.

Roto-Reuters - all the news that's fit to spin.

[marktwain]

The United Nations ranks Brazil second behind only Venezuela in per capita gun deaths, with 22 for every 100,000 people. In absolute terms it leads the world, with more than 36,000 shot and killed last year, government figures show.

Yet we are repeatedly told that our homicides are high because we have don't have draconian legal restrictions on guns.

Both of these societies have far greater legal restrictions on guns than we do, and they have far larger homicide rates, yet they are never mentioned when the MSM talks gun control in the U.S.