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 shooting never happened but the story was just too much for the anti-Second Amendment group to pass up.
From the headline I thought it was about David Hogg
Leftists and Muslims will lie to promote their perverted agenda.
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.
Me too.
Good to see it isn’t just conservatives who get dupped by sob stories
Every politician marched with MLK Jr.
Every hippie was at Woodstock.
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.
Same here.
“Every politician marched with MLK Jr. Every hippie was at Woodstock.”
And Joe Biden also went to prison with Nelson Mandela!
Taqqiyya is not just a muslim thing.
You mean Bloomberg for Gun Confiscation.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics ...
Lies, dam lies and hateful lies by democrats
democratic (lying) talking points
“If you can remember being at Woodstock, you weren’t actually there.”
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.
Wrong school but still a liar anyway. A dem darling?
Simple. He wanted to go to Hahvad, regardless his SAT scores. Who knows, he might end up to be Vice Chair of DNC.
Of course not.
The left has an agenda and isn't going to let pesky details like facts get in the way.
.....From the headline I thought it was about David Hogg.....
Well, it could have been about Hogg!
They should let me speak. I’ve survived every school shooting since 1959.
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