Posted on 05/04/2026 5:35:18 AM PDT by marktwain
In March of 2025, Everytown, the activist organization created with considerable funding from multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg, launched a website called EveryShot. EveryShot is an artificial intelligence tool using ChatGPT-40 mini to search for and list, according to Everytown, a collection of incidents in the 50 U.S. states involving shootings with a firearm or the brandishing of a firearm. Specifically excluded are BB guns, pellet guns, toy guns, or events that are fictional. A filter is used to exclude duplicates. The tool often shows multiple sources for a single event. The tool can flag events when there is uncertainty or discrepancies the flag brings the attention of a human for review. The tool updates the database twice a week.
The tool has been developed by Everytown. Everytown is strongly biased toward greater political control over the ownership and use of firearms. It is not surprising there are no categories of firearms use under the categories of “Intent” listed as s justified homicides. There is no category of “Incident Type” listed as self-defense.
In “Relationship to Shooter” there are no categories for “gang member”, “criminal”, “drug dealer”, or even “stranger” or “attacker”. There are only Self, Friend, various family members, Intimate Partner, Bystander, and “Not Reported”.
The description of the sources limits them to occurring in “one of the 50 US states”; the District of Columbia, a United States federal territory, is included.
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I truly admire your through and placid approach to presenting the data.
Well done!
AI continues the tradition of being able to put all the statistics end-to-end and never reaching a conclusion.
The only gun stat that matters is comparing how often a law abiding,clinically sane,American does something bad vs others doing something bad. Gun control isn’t the answer.Criminal and mentally ill control is.
Kinda like any Wiki that is not vetted by knowledgeable folks — guaranteed to be a pack of lies.
Oh, and it is “thorough”, not “through”. Seig Heil, ya’all!!:)
I asked a certain AI if AIs were reliable just to see what it would say, and the reply was “No.” Now, was that reply reliable? My brain hurts.
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