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The anti gunners are trotting out a new lie...
How The Media, Gun Control Advocates Misrepresent Facts On School Shootings - Bearing Arms - Marshal County High School, school shootings, Stephen Gutkowski
Now, imagine you’re reading up on the news and you see that there have been 11 school shootings this year. Once you get past wonder how you missed news on the other ten, you’re probably going to start wondering why it’s such a massive problem that we’ve had 11 school shootings in the first month of 2018.
Except, we haven’t.
Stephen Gutkowski at the Washington Free Beacon took a look at the claim and found it to be a load of bull.
That count, created by Everytown for Gun Safety, claims there have been 11 school shootings thus far in 2018. However, nearly all of the incidents included alongside the Marshall County shooting bear little or no resemblance to that shooting or other well-publicized school shootings, like those at Sandy Hook Elementary or Columbine High School. None of the other events included in the gun-control group’s count feature more than one injury, most featured no injuries at all, and one involved a BB gun being shot at a school bus window.
In its threat assessment on school shooters, developed in the wake of the Columbine shooting, the FBI sought to answer “why would a student bring a weapon to school and without any explicable reason open fire on fellow students and teachers?” Despite its clear focus on violence committed against students and faculty during school events, the assessment did not provide an official definition for what a school shooter or a school shooting is.
Everytown for Gun Safety uses its own definition based on what it said is “expert advice and common sense,” which the gun-control group claims is “straightforward, fair, and comprehensive.” The group said it counts “any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds.”
--This broad definition places two separate suicides, a January 9 incident where a man shot a BB gun at a bus window resulting in no injuries;
--a January 10 incident where a student in a criminal justice club accidentally shot a peace officer’s real gun at a target on a classroom wall instead of a training gun resulting in no injuries;
--a January 9 incident where gun shots were fired from somewhere outside of Cal State San Bernardino, which struck a building on campus without injuries;
--and other incidents next to the murder of a Winston-Salem State University student at a nightclub on the Wake Forest University campus,
the January 22 shooting of a 15-year-old at a Dallas-area high school, and Tuesday’s Marshall County High School shooting which left 2 dead and 18 others injured.
In other words, they’re using the broadest definition possible, most likely so they can inflate the number of “school shootings” in order to invoke terror in parents. They’re trying to trick people into supporting new gun control measures by convincing them the problem is much larger than it actually is.
How The Media, Gun Control Advocates Misrepresent Facts On School Shootings - Bearing Arms - Marshal County High School, school shootings, Stephen Gutkowski
Now, imagine you’re reading up on the news and you see that there have been 11 school shootings this year. Once you get past wonder how you missed news on the other ten, you’re probably going to start wondering why it’s such a massive problem that we’ve had 11 school shootings in the first month of 2018.
Except, we haven’t.
Stephen Gutkowski at the Washington Free Beacon took a look at the claim and found it to be a load of bull.
That count, created by Everytown for Gun Safety, claims there have been 11 school shootings thus far in 2018. However, nearly all of the incidents included alongside the Marshall County shooting bear little or no resemblance to that shooting or other well-publicized school shootings, like those at Sandy Hook Elementary or Columbine High School. None of the other events included in the gun-control group’s count feature more than one injury, most featured no injuries at all, and one involved a BB gun being shot at a school bus window.
In its threat assessment on school shooters, developed in the wake of the Columbine shooting, the FBI sought to answer “why would a student bring a weapon to school and without any explicable reason open fire on fellow students and teachers?” Despite its clear focus on violence committed against students and faculty during school events, the assessment did not provide an official definition for what a school shooter or a school shooting is.
Everytown for Gun Safety uses its own definition based on what it said is “expert advice and common sense,” which the gun-control group claims is “straightforward, fair, and comprehensive.” The group said it counts “any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds.”
--This broad definition places two separate suicides, a January 9 incident where a man shot a BB gun at a bus window resulting in no injuries;
--a January 10 incident where a student in a criminal justice club accidentally shot a peace officer’s real gun at a target on a classroom wall instead of a training gun resulting in no injuries;
--a January 9 incident where gun shots were fired from somewhere outside of Cal State San Bernardino, which struck a building on campus without injuries;
--and other incidents next to the murder of a Winston-Salem State University student at a nightclub on the Wake Forest University campus,
the January 22 shooting of a 15-year-old at a Dallas-area high school, and Tuesday’s Marshall County High School shooting which left 2 dead and 18 others injured.
In other words, they’re using the broadest definition possible, most likely so they can inflate the number of “school shootings” in order to invoke terror in parents. They’re trying to trick people into supporting new gun control measures by convincing them the problem is much larger than it actually is.
