{"id":846,"date":"2016-05-27T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2016-06-05T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T11:54:19","slug":"face-president-michl-ebner-commented-commissioner-bienkowskas-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/face-president-michl-ebner-commented-commissioner-bienkowskas-unfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"FACE:  Commissioner Bie\u0144kowska\u2019s 100.000 deaths unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Commissioner Bie\u0144kowska&#8217;s Scandalous Speech<\/h1>\n<h3>Mrs El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska ( European Commission ) claimed 100.000 deaths in ten years by legally-held firearms.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFirearmsUnitedCroatia%2Fvideos%2Fvb.1512949822332469%2F1564883777139073%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"438\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>FACE&#8217;s Press Release<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;FACE President Michl Ebner commented: \u201cCommissioner Bie\u0144kowska\u2019s unfounded statement that 100,000 citizens were \u201cmurdered\u201d by legal firearms does not contribute to the democratic debate on the revision of the Firearms Directive. The European Commission is adopting an incomprehensibly rigid attitude towards a serious piece of legislation, which is now risking to disproportionately affect legal firearm owners with no predictable outcome on terrorism and criminality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.face.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/english\/pr_commission_misleads_european_parliament_on_firearms.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What now follows is a Facebook Note by the free online magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/hunter-at-heart.com\/about-us\/\">Hunter at Heart<\/a>\u00a0which we are allowed to share:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>EU gun ban is based on lies<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hunter-at-Heart-185542711812693\/timeline\">HUNTER AT HEART<\/a>\u00b7MITTWOCH, 25. MAI 2016<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Polish commissioner El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska, who wants to impose a ban on certain hunting weapons for security reasons, claimed that 100,000 EU citizens have been murdered in their homes with legal semi-automatic firearms during the last decade. That is 10,000 murders a year committed with these firearms! Can this be true?<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to present some facts:<\/p>\n<p>In the EU the average homicide rate in 2011 was 1.11 homicides pr. 100,000 people with a downward trend. As of 2015 the total EU population is roughly 508 million people. This equates to approximately 5,600 homicides in total \u2013 a little more than half the number claimed by Bie\u0144kowska.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of homicides includes every murder with every conceivable weapon\u2026 hands, knives, blunt instruments, illegal firearms and legal firearms etc. It is very rare that homicides are carried out with legal registered firearms. Actually, a lot less than 10% of all murders are committed with legal firearms or even legal firearms stolen from private owners.\u00a0A country with very good statistics on this matter is Sweden where roughly 7% of all murders are committed with legal or ex-legal firearms &#8211; the vast majority of these being simple shotguns which will not be affected by the proposed ban.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that 10% of all homicides in the EU are committed with legal or ex-legal firearms brings us to an estimate of a maximum of 560 homicides committed with these private firearms in the EU every year. The actual number is most probably MUCH lower than that.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, semi-automatic firearms are not that usual so the number of murders committed with these weapons can only be a fraction of the maximum 560 murders committed with all legal firearms. My gut feeling is that less than 50 homicides a year are committed with the legally or ex-legally owned semi-automatic firearms that Bie\u0144kowska blames for 10,000 murders a year. But that is just an educated guess so let\u2019s stick to the estimated maximum of 560 homicides committed with legal or stolen ex-legal firearms of all types a year.<\/p>\n<p>560 homicides is a VERY far cry from 10,000 homicides.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the million-dollar-question:<\/p>\n<h3>Is El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska completely ignorant of the facts of the matter or is she lying deliberately?<\/h3>\n<p>Neither ignorance nor lies are worthy of a high ranking EU politician driving what is clearly a very personal and emotional motion to harass the more than 7 million law abiding hunters of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to apologize and to find out EXACTLY how many homicides are committed with legal or ex-legal private firearms in the EU every year. Is this a problem at all???? Clearly the EU politicians are incapable of simply guessing the numbers and big decisions affecting millions of citizens need to be based on facts.<\/p>\n<p>Jens Ulrik H\u00f8gh Editor &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunter-at-heart.com\">www.hunter-at-heart.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S Here is the contact details for personal assistant to the Commissioner Bartosz Lasota: bartosz.lasota@ec.europa.eu<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to drop him a POLITE email sharing your thoughts on the commissioners behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Documentation:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KUux4tWoNIY\">VIDEO<\/a>: The commissioner presenting her \u201cevidence\u201d for the IMCO comitee:<br \/>\nEU homicide rate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/facts\/european-union\/homicide-rate\">http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/facts\/european-union\/homicide-rate<\/a><br \/>\nSwedish homicide statistics (in Swedish): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bra.se\/bra\/brott-och-statistik\/mord-och-drap.html\">https:\/\/www.bra.se\/bra\/brott-och-statistik\/mord-och-drap.html<\/a><br \/>\nSwedish statistics of guns used in crime (in Swedish): <a href=\"https:\/\/vapenfakta.se\/forskning-och-statistik\/vapen-och-brott\/\">https:\/\/vapenfakta.se\/forskning-och-statistik\/vapen-och-brott\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Read also our report: <a href=\"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/2016\/02\/02\/firearms-report-iv\/\">Homicide and Suicide with Firearms in Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-878\" src=\"http:\/\/firearms-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/100000.png\" alt=\"100000\" width=\"577\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/100000.png 577w, https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/100000-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Bie\u0144kowska&#8217;s Scandalous Speech Mrs El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska ( European Commission ) claimed 100.000 deaths in ten years by legally-held firearms. FACE&#8217;s Press Release &#8220;FACE President Michl Ebner commented: \u201cCommissioner Bie\u0144kowska\u2019s unfounded statement that 100,000 citizens were \u201cmurdered\u201d by legal firearms does not contribute to the democratic debate on the revision of the Firearms Directive. The European Commission is adopting an &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/face-president-michl-ebner-commented-commissioner-bienkowskas-unfounded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,57,81,40,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firearms-united.com\/cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}