U.S. police chiefs call for background checks for all gun purchases

[jimmy the one]

7. what 2 pinocchios means

One Pinocchio Some shading of the facts. Selective telling of the truth. Some omissions and exaggerations, but no outright falsehoods. (You could view this as “mostly true.”)

Two Pinocchios Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily. A politician can create a false, misleading impression by playing with words and using legalistic language that means little to ordinary people. (Similar to “half true.”)

Three Pinocchios Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions. This gets into the realm of “mostly false.”

A 'half true' in this realm does not (necessarily) mean a deceptive 'half truth', it means about half is true, half is false - partly true or partly false.

FC:.. rather than being 30 to 40% (the original estimate of the range) or “up to 40%” (Obama’s words), gun purchases without background checks amounted to 14 to 22%. And since the survey sample is so small, that means the results have a survey caveat: plus or minus six percentage points.

Which means possibly as low as 8% or as high as 28%, and 28% is nearly 30%.
Fifteen to 20 percent is actually bad enough, anyone disagree?