PolitiFact: When Republicans are wrong, give them a "half-true" anyway.

[Scuba]

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) tried to defend his vote against universal background checks for gun purchases by stating that "the most stringent gun laws on the books are in places like Chicago, (which) has the highest murder rate."

But Chicago doesn't have the highest murder rate. Chicago's not even in the top 10, at 18.5 murders per 100,000 people. And when it comes to gun deaths, Chicago is even lower, at 11.6 gun murders per 100,000. For comparison, the highest gun murder rate belongs to New Orleans at 62.1.

So Johnson's claim is demonstrably false.

But not to PolitiFlawed, which rates it "half true", based on the fact that Chicago does indeed have some of the nation's strictest gun laws. Matters not that the entire premise of Johnson's argument was false, the fact that he had one true claim in his argument makes it "half true". Sorta.



http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2014/mar/02/ron-johnson/us-sen-ron-johnson-links-strict-gun-control-laws-h/

[Laelth]

1. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[rock]

2. Two points

1) Republicans are always wrong;
2) Er, one point.

[Chathamization]

3. "Plenty of Republicans are Satanists. Look at John Boehner, he's a Republican and a Satanist."

I guess Politifact would rate that half-true, since he is a Republican. Oh wait, I forgot that statements coming from Democrats are rated mostly false even when they're true. Scratch that.