Posted on 06/19/2015 2:49:40 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Michael R. Bloomberg’s gun-control group has started financing its own news website, only days after a shooting at a historic back church in South Carolina left nine people dead.
The new site, The Trace, is being preliminarily financed by the former New York mayor’s group Everytown for Gun Safety, which was created after the 2012 shootings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school that left more than 20 people dead, most of them young children.
The site’s editorial director is James Burnett, and it aims to be an independent nonprofit site — legally it’s a separate entity. It went live on Friday.
“As journalists, we work from the facts, which are these: By the end of an average day in America, 31 people will be murdered by gunfire. Another 55 people will die from self-inflicted gunshots. More than 206 others will suffer nonfatal bullet wounds. Few of these deaths and injuries draw wide notice,” reads an editor’s note on the site, which is trying to prompt a discussion about gun laws in a way that has not been done before.
It said these less-noticed shootings “are the context for the tragedies, like the one that look place on Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, that do galvanize our national attention.”
The note also says: “We do bring a point of view to the issue of gun violence: We believe there is too much of it. But our focus is on a related problem: the shortage of information on the subject at large.”
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Astroturf journalism!
31 people will be murdered by gunfire. Another 55 people will die from self-inflicted gunshots. More than 206 others will suffer nonfatal bullet wounds. ==
Put out the stats for NATURAL CAUSES and OLD AGE!
Meanwhile, we have news reports about Euthanasia Without Consent
I’m sorry. My brain cannot comprehend this illogic. Perhaps thinking like this contributed to Mr. Roof’s problems.
Once again another head case kills and once again mental illness will be completely ignored.
Whenever there is a shooting tragedy liberals never hesitate to climb on top of the dead bodies to push their agenda.
Homicides at ages 1-4 and 5-9.
Not too many 1 year olds carrying heat in my neck of the woods, so ——
Is this child abuse? / Boyfriend vs girlfriend’s kids?/ shaken baby? ?????
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