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Originally posted by Food Eater Lad
The BBC has reported a skyrocking amount of gun crime three years in row. That is not an unknown source.
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The BBC is, at best, a secondary source unless they compiled the statistics themselves. Since we can assume the reporter did not survey officers, compile victim surveys, or conduct any field research, we are left with the question of what his sources were. Whatever they were, the reporter asserted that the British Crime Survey data is considered more reliable than them so it seems odd to use such statistics as the fundamental basis for your argument.
Are you going to respond to the rest of my post?