FIVETHIRTYEIGHT: The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even Less Reliable.

According to the CDC’s most recent figures, somewhere between 31,000 and 236,000 people were injured by guns in 2017. That range, which represents the confidence interval — the high and low ends of a range of estimates that probably contains the real number, whatever that number is — is almost four times wider than the one given in the agency’s 2001 estimate.

“When I looked at the 2017 numbers, I went, ‘Oh, my god,’” said David Hemenway, the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. “You just can’t use those numbers.”

Plus:

Last year, FiveThirtyEight and The Trace, a nonprofit news organization covering gun violence in America,1 reported that the rising trend in the number of nonfatal gunshot wounds in the CDC’s estimates was out of step with trends reported by other public health and criminal justice databases, which found flat or declining numbers of these injuries. The CDC’s most recent estimate — nearly 134,000 injuries — suggests that the upward trend in its data is accelerating, with injuries jumping over 57 percent between 2015 and 2017.

But that number is suspect, in part because the agency sources its data from a small number of hospitals: just 60 in 2017, according to data obtained in a public records request by The Trace and FiveThirtyEight. Drawing data from such a small pool means that a single hospital that treats a disproportionate number of gun injuries has the potential to drastically skew the entire estimate.

It’s difficult to trust anything concerning guns coming from the CDC since the agency got “woke” about them in the ’90s.

GOOD: High School Shooting Teams Are Getting Wildly Popular — And the NRA Is Helping.

VIDEO: ‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett ‘Betrayed’ and ‘Took Advantage of’ His Black Attackers, Lawyer Says.

My understanding is that they were well-paid.

TO BE FAIR, HE HAS A LOT OF THINGS TO BE HUMBLE ABOUT: Inslee: I Have ‘Humility About Being a Straight White Male.’

A LOT OF LOW-CARBERS USE THEM AS A SNACK:  You’ve GOT to be kidding… I Hope.

THE FACT I’M GETTING OLD AT ALL STILL FEELS LIKE A BIT OF A SURPRISE, HONESTLY:  Eight surprising facts about getting old in America.

THE DOGFOOD TASTES WORSE NOW THAN T DID IN 1983, BUT THEY’RE DETERMINED TO PUSH IT HARDER: Before ‘Captain Marvel,’ women had a ‘Quarterback Princess’.

UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!  Murders up 30 percent in New York City this year.

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE, NOT THE CAPO DI TUTTI IDIOTI:  Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes.

INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND EVENTUALLY PHYSICAL DARKNESS IS ALWAYS THE END-STAGE OF SOCIALISM:  Venezuela Goes Dark.

EXPERTS IN WHAT? BELLY BUTTON LINT MINING?  Socialism and “The “Experts”.

UNLIKE FICTION, REALITY DOESN’T NEED TO BE PLAUSIBLE:  Stranger than fiction: Albert Battel and the Przemysl rescue during WW II.

WELL, I CERTAINLY FIND IT SO:  Twitter Considered Harmful.

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GENERALS FIGHTING THE LAST WAR: “[Hillary Clinton’s] attempt to analogize the Southern struggle for voting rights with her fate in Wisconsin subordinates some uncomfortable, and likely more relevant, truths — in the service of a narrative offered by an element of the Democratic Party…” If you think exposing the voters of Wisconsin to what the Democratic party has become will gain votes for the Democrats, well, then. . . .

IF YOU THINK “EMOTIONAL LABOR” IS SOMETHING ONLY WOMEN DO, YOU’VE NEVER BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A WOMAN: Men: Welcome to “Emotional Labor.”

THIS IS KNOWN AS “COOLING THE MARK OUT:” ‘I’m not for impeachment,’ Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats. The impeachment buzz was just to excite the rubes for the midterms. It’s downright toxic for the Dems’ chances in 2020 (especially since they don’t have any actual impeachable offenses) so now the angry base has to be steered in another direction without fully realizing how it was conned.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Rep. Ilhan Omar explains the difference between Obama and Trump: ‘One is human, the other is not.’

Anti-Semites who dehumanize their opponents? Who could have predicted that?

OPEN THREAD: Talk about what you will.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE, KENTUCKY EDITION: Gov. Bevin signs permitless conceal carry bill into law.

THE CULTURE OF FAKE OUTRAGE COMES FOR TUCKER CARLSON: If you’re a conservative or a Republican who attains any kind of prominence at all, the hunt is on.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Resistance training cuts type 2 diabetes risk.

I’m a big fan, as I’ve mentioned, of the Farmer’s Walk. One of the interesting side effects is that I feel lighter on my feet in general. Heavy deadlifts don’t give the same effect, I guess because you’re just moving up and down in one plane instead of walking.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: No, Zoo Animals Don’t Want Selfies with You.

First-world humans have separated ourselves from the natural world as much as possible, but the natural world doesn’t care. An apex predator doesn’t know what the internet is, and its hierarchy is much simpler than ours. You can get all the likes and RTs in the world, but it won’t help you when you’re resting in a big cat’s belly.

Explore “the Circle of Life” and read the whole thing.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND THEIR SILENCE MAKES PERFECT SENSE: Newsrooms that went wild when David Duke endorsed Laura Ingraham suddenly silent when he did the same for Rep. Omar.

GOOD: It’s Official: 2020 Budget Proposal Has Largest Troop Pay Raise in a Decade.