Joseph O'Leary
speaker
10 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard Dec 2012
Joseph O'Leary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We think we've tracked it down to a poster...
from the early 80s.
Stop handguns before they stop you, it was titled.
And it has exactly the same figures as was being tweeted about in the last few days.
Were the figures made up for the poster or were they once accurate?
We believe they were once accurate.
There's a very, very small print on the poster that says, based on 1979 statistics...
And if you look a bit further into all sorts of US publications, magazines, etc., they all talk about the FBI's 1979 Uniform Crime Report, which we believe is the source of the figures themselves.
So these are essentially 33-year-old figures.
Joseph O'Leary from Full Fact.
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