Posted on 07/08/2021 11:32:31 AM PDT by richardb72
I recently drove 950 miles to give the keynote commencement address at an online high school based in Las Vegas. Two thousand students were supposedly going to attend, but it turned out that the school didn’t exist.
The fake high school and the deceptive editing of my speech weren’t the only falsehoods here. A gun control organization called “Change the Ref” hoodwinked news outlets worldwide to propagate a lie about how extensive gun violence is in the United States.
The videos made from this address focus on the “lost class.” Specifically, “they are the 3,044 graduating high school seniors that died from gun violence,” according to Change the Ref. These dead students were represented by the vast sea of 3,044 empty chairs that the group had me give my “dress rehearsal” talk in front of.
It is a claim that received unquestioning national (e.g., USA Today, MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post) and international (e.g., The Guardian [UK], Stern [Germany], SBS News [Australia]) news coverage parroting this figure, even running the number in their headlines. But it is a number that isn’t even remotely close to the truth.
About 3.7 million students were expected to graduate from high school during the 2020-21 school year. But 3,000 of them were not killed with firearms....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Conditioning us for the seizure of legal firearms from non-violent people while they are left in the hands of violent offenders.
Lott got duped? He didn’t research whether the school existed?
He suspicions weren’t raised that a high school asked him to give a commencement speech?
No kidding.. I thought Mr. Lott knew we are at war.
more kids die from medical mistakes.
OK, let’s face the facts. “Victims of these homicides are disproportionately African American. At least 8,600 black lives were lost to homicide in 2020” and “Since more than 90 percent of black homicide victims are killed by black offenders, the ghost of endemic white supremacy cannot be invoked to push racial grievance”
What are the Democrats plans to put a halt to this besides disarming law abiding citizens?
I hope that Mr. Lott had, by that time, already cashed the check for his speaking fee.
Bill and Hillary routinely charge, what, $200,000 for a speaking engagement. I would expect that Mr. Lott would demand at least 5% as much.
Regards,
I believe that Mr. Lott has also accepted an invitation to address the graduating class of the only all-Eskimo high school in Antarctica. Won't he be surprised when he arrives there, only to discover no one but 300,000 penguins.
Regards,
Thank you, John Lott, for your support of sanity.
The media is just following the plan.
They have been conditioning us for gun control since 1963, and 1968.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on GMA screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they made a grab for the rifles, and missed, but played their hand.
1988,Josh Sugarmann, of the National Council to Ban Handguns tells how to ban rifles.
“Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons
—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine
gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on
these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
Surprise! Leftist, democrat media lies.
This was a very elaborate, expensive, hoax.
Anyone can be duped if enough money is spent.
I wonder if he can sue them for fraud?
Lott did research the school. He Googled them and they had a very nice website with lots of information on the supposed school. They really spent a lot of money on the Hoax. https://crimeresearch.org/2021/06/at-the-wall-street-journal-the-school-that-wasnt-there-i-drove-950-miles-to-give-a-commencement-address-it-was-an-elaborate-hoax-by-a-gun-control-organization/
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