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Everytown Tries to Distance Itself From Activist Who Falsely Claimed to Be School Shooting Survivor
BearingArms ^ | 5/30/25 | Cam Edwards

Posted on 05/31/2025 8:14:33 AM PDT by CFW

When gun control activists with Everytown for Gun Safety and Students Demand Action held a rally at the Kentucky state capitol in February to push for new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, one of the speakers captivated the small crowd of anti-gunners with his moving story about surviving a mass shooting at his Pennsylvania high school.

As it turns out, however, what Calvin Polachek told the crowd was an outright lie. He invented the school shooting and his self-proclaimed trauma, and now Everytown is scrambling to distance themselves from the man they put in front of a microphone.

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Did anyone at Everytown even try to vet Polachek's story? According to the Republican Herald newspaper in Pennsylvania, the gun control activist claimed that eleven students, including his brother and best friend, were murdered during a shooting at Dallas High School in 2017. As the paper notes, that would have been one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Did the Everytown volunteeers who heard Polachek's lies just assume that they were true even though they'd never heard of a shooting at Dallas High School? And if Polachek wasn't an "active volunteer", then how did he land the speaking gig? Was Everytown just so eager to put a victim in front of a microphone that everyone associated with the anti-gun rally just decide that there was no need to do their due diligence?

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The guy spoke at an anti-gun rally and talked of the trauma he suffered from a school shooting that killed 11, including his best friend and his brother.

The shooting never happened but the story was just too much for the anti-Second Amendment group to pass up.

1 posted on 05/31/2025 8:14:33 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

From the headline I thought it was about David Hogg


2 posted on 05/31/2025 8:18:09 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: CFW

Leftists and Muslims will lie to promote their perverted agenda.


3 posted on 05/31/2025 8:20:55 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: j.havenfarm

The guy was copying David Hogg except Hogg didn’t have to fabricate a school shooting. He only had to fabricate a story of proximity.


4 posted on 05/31/2025 8:21:50 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens. And only full words. )
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To: j.havenfarm

Me too.


5 posted on 05/31/2025 8:23:23 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: CFW

Good to see it isn’t just conservatives who get dupped by sob stories


6 posted on 05/31/2025 8:24:11 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: HYPOCRACY

Every politician marched with MLK Jr.

Every hippie was at Woodstock.


7 posted on 05/31/2025 8:24:28 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: j.havenfarm

From the headline I thought it was about David Hogg


Very similar story to that of David Hogg. Maybe he thought that since the Parkland shooting brought Hogg notoriety and $$$$$ from the progressive party, it would do the same for him.


8 posted on 05/31/2025 8:30:29 AM PDT by CFW
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To: j.havenfarm

Same here.


9 posted on 05/31/2025 8:30:51 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Every politician marched with MLK Jr. Every hippie was at Woodstock.”

And Joe Biden also went to prison with Nelson Mandela!


10 posted on 05/31/2025 8:42:50 AM PDT by Orosius
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To: clee1

Taqqiyya is not just a muslim thing.


11 posted on 05/31/2025 8:43:00 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: CFW

You mean Bloomberg for Gun Confiscation.


12 posted on 05/31/2025 8:58:33 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: CFW

Lies, damned lies, and statistics ...

Lies, dam lies and hateful lies by democrats

democratic (lying) talking points


13 posted on 05/31/2025 9:01:27 AM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“If you can remember being at Woodstock, you weren’t actually there.”


14 posted on 05/31/2025 9:08:09 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I didn't leave the Democratic Party. It LEFT me, and keeps going further left. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I learned about Woodstock while hitchhiking around somewhere on the East Coast when a carload that picked me up told me about it, so I said sure I’ll ride with you, unfortunately I learned I was needed back in Houston and had to get out later and start hitching in the opposite direction.


15 posted on 05/31/2025 9:15:08 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: j.havenfarm

Wrong school but still a liar anyway. A dem darling?


16 posted on 05/31/2025 9:15:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: CFW

Simple. He wanted to go to Hahvad, regardless his SAT scores. Who knows, he might end up to be Vice Chair of DNC.


17 posted on 05/31/2025 9:25:33 AM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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Did anyone at Everytown even try to vet Polachek's story?

Of course not.

The left has an agenda and isn't going to let pesky details like facts get in the way.

18 posted on 05/31/2025 9:28:02 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: j.havenfarm; CFW; lightman

.....From the headline I thought it was about David Hogg.....

Well, it could have been about Hogg!


19 posted on 05/31/2025 9:50:19 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: CFW

They should let me speak. I’ve survived every school shooting since 1959.


20 posted on 05/31/2025 10:07:02 AM PDT by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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