Posted on 02/16/2018 1:16:40 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: I had this yesterday and it got aced out by other things. But there was a popular news item yesterday that this was like the 18th school shooting in whatever period of time.
And it was totally bogus. It was entirely bogus! It was entirely untrue. This year alone! It was 18 school shootings in this year alone. Of all places, The Washington Post came along and debunked it. But it doesn’t matter. The Drive-Bys will not abandon this. Any gun statistic that they think advances their radical cause, they will use, stick with it, lie about it. They will not abandon it. “No, There Haven’t Been 18 School Shootings in 2018. That Number Is Flat Wrong,” and you know where the number comes from?
Everytown for Gun Safety. It’s “a nonprofit group, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg,” mayor of New York. Everytown for Gun Safety “works to prevent gun violence and is most famous for its running tally of school shootings. ‘This,’ the organization tweeted at 4:22 p.m. Wednesday, ‘is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.’ … New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted it, too, as did performers Cher and Alexander William and actors Misha Collins and Albert Brooks. …
“MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Time, MSN, the BBC, the New York Daily News and [the Huffing and Puffington Post] also used the number in” emergency, breaking-news fashion. “By Wednesday night, the top suggested search after typing ’18’ into Google was ’18 school shootings in 2018.’ It is a horrifying statistic. And it is wrong. … A month ago, for example, a group of college students were at a meeting of a criminal-justice club in Texas when a student accidentally fired a real gun, rather than a training weapon. The bullet went through a wall, then a window.
“Though no one was hurt, it left the student distraught.” They counted that as a school shooting! There haven’t been 18.
As far as I can tell, there have been two. Two too many, but a far cry from 18.
This is how they're keeping score:
Jan. 3, St. Johns, Mich.
The first school shooting took place just three days into the new year, at East Olive Elementary School in St. Johns, Mich.
A 31-year-old man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the former school’s parking lot.
Jan. 4, Seattle, Wash.
A gunshot was fired at the New Start High School in Seattle, Wash.
The round entered an office window and ended up lodged in a three-ring binder. No one was injured.
Jan, 10 Sierra Vista, Ariz.
A teen was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Coronado Elementary School bathroom.
Jan. 10, San Bernardino, Calif.
At least one shot was fired, shattering a California State University classroom window. No injuries were reported.
Jan. 10, Denison, Texas
A bullet was accidentally fired through a classroom wall at the Grayson College Criminal Justice Center. No one was injured.
Jan. 15, Marshall, Texas
A bullet went through a residential hall’s dorm room. No injuries were reported.
Jan. 20, Winston-Salem, N.C.
A Winston-Salem State University football player was shot and killed at an event at Wake Forest University.
Jan. 22, Italy, Texas
A teenage girl was wounded at Italy High school after a 16-year-old suspect opened fire with a semi-automatic hangun.
Jan. 22, Gentilly, La.
A shooting outside The NET Charter High School injured a 14-year-old boy.
Jan. 23, Benton, Ky.
Two people were killed and another 15 were shot at Marshall County High School.
Jan. 25, Mobile, Ala.
Murphy High School student Jonah Neal fired a gun on campus. No one was injured.
Jan. 26, Dearborn, Mich.
Shots were fired from a car in Dearborn High School's parking lot. No injuries were reported.
Jan. 31, Pa.
Gunshots erupted as a fight broke out outside of Lincoln High School. A 32-year-old man was shot twice and later pronounced dead.
Feb. 1, Los Angeles, Calif.
An accidental shooting injured five children at the Salvador B. Castro Middle School in downtown Los Angeles.
Feb. 5, Oxon Hill, Md.
A teen was shot outside of Oxon Hill High School. The victim survived.
Feb. 5, Maplewood, Minn.
A third-grader pulled the trigger on a cop's gun, firing a shot at the Harmony Learning Center. No one was injured.
Feb. 8, New York, N.Y.
A teen was taken into custody after a shot was fired inside Metropolitan High School. No one was injured.
Feb. 14, Broward County, Fla.
A former student killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High.
2018 is only 7 weeks young. That would be 2.57 school shootings per week. Why haven’t the media been reporting on them? Must have happened in Chicago. Move along.... nothing to see
Heard it on NPR which confirmed to me that it was wrong.
The Parkland or Columbine type of “school shootings” appears, thanks be to God who has patience immensely longer than ours, quite rare yet. And these are the ones where we wonder what the sam hill went so wrong with the troubles brewing in plain sight for a long time and nobody cared (much).
But to text search gun related incidents that say something about schools is misleading.
How do groceries do, per business, by this measure? Restaurants?
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Thank you for your continued posting of that. I was going to look up your post from yesterday and copy-paste it here if I didn’t see it.
Just ask yourself, how can there have been 18 school shootings in 2018, when it’s only February? That is totally ridiculous.
Shining the light of truth, as Rush would say.
I wonder how many school car fatalities there have been since the first of the year. Using their criteria it would mean that any car accident resulting in a fatality on or near school grounds gets counted. Ban schools!
There is no definition that makes that a valid number.
Somebody who once went to school got shot.
Oops, another school shooting.
If there is an increase in recent decades ask yourself why?
Would it be the massive wall to wall media coverage? Yes.
You have a mentally deranged loser who nobody ever paid attention to and he keeps watching the media shootings on TV .
So he wants to be world famous too . And just the repetitive showing of something would trigger some mentally ill creeps. Monkey see monkey do. And the news media shows them how to do and how to become famous.
Just wanted you to know your effort is appreciated.
I like a lot of kinds of posts on FR. Jokes, graphics, opinions (whether I agree or not) and a lot more. For me posts like yours above are the best. Solid information that counters the propaganda being spread everywhere by the left. Indisputable facts are gold.
Well, an employee of our local Wal Mart was murdered yesterday by a customer with a gun. I guess it doesn’t count as she only killed one.
No argument from me.
They want to say that any firearm discharge on school grounds (or even what USED to be school grounds) is a "school shooting".
Typical leftist obfuscation of the truth.
Thanks.
According to data compiled by Mother Jones there have been 16 school shootings since 1982, with a total of 162 fatalities.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/
In that same period 550,076 people were murdered.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Did it have a grocery?
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