Posted on 10/12/2014 3:11:16 PM PDT by richardb72
It’s disheartening to see the FBI used to promote a political agenda, but that’s what we got with the bureau’s release last month of a study claim to show a sharp rise in mass shootings, a la Newtown, Conn.
The FBI counted 160 “mass” or “active” shootings in public places from 2000 to 2013. Worse, it said these attacks rose from just one in 2000 to 17 in 2013. Media outlets worldwide gave the “news” extensive coverage.
Too bad the study is remarkably shoddy — slicing the evidence to distort the results. In fact, mass public shootings have only risen ever so slightly over the last four decades.
While the FBI study discusses “mass shootings or killings,” its graphs were filled with cases that had nothing to do with mass killings. Of the 160 cases it counted, 32 involved a gun being fired without anyone being killed. Another 35 cases involved a single murder.
It’s hard to see how the FBI can count these incidents, which make up 42 percent of its 160 cases, as “mass killings.” They plainly don’t fit the FBI’s old definition, which required four or more murders, nor even its new one of at least three murders. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Oh, wait, doesn't Eric (Fast and Furious) Holder have authority over the FBI?
'Nuff said!
If you’re going to shoot, aim for center ‘mass.’ *Rolleyes*
The stupidity in this Nation makes me want to cry. Daily.
Because this administration is changing the meanings, definitions of everything................
It’s hard to believe that the FBI has just become another set of political hacks: they used to stand for fidelity, bravery, and integrity. They used to be the finest and mist professional law enforcement agency. Now they’re just Eric Holder’s palace guard.
The public is conditioned to have a low tolerance for death in certain aspects and high tolerance in others, for pure policy motivation.
Ever since Obama in power, increase in deaths of soldiers, suicide of soldiers and massacres at the hand of ISIS are minimized. Before with Bush, it was intolerable, it was a “gun control and violence issue”.
And when liberals or blacks in ghettos commit the murders, it is non news... Can’t have in the news that the democrat run families and ghettos are just as bad as Mexico’s border... Ie. completely unsafe and out of control simply because Democrats coddle with terrorists out of spite against America.
Sure seems that way.
Right now the SS seems right there with them too.
I suspect the vast majority are still quality people.
The FBI can pull their puss-filled reputation out of the cesspool that is Obamaland by leaking the tons of stuff they have on that slime ball. They know each and every fly that feed on this putrescence.
FBI...DO IT....NOW!
We’ll love you, and we promise to provide you front seat tickets at the guillotine event.
1. Increase has happened under 0bama.
2. Vast majority (all?) occurred in “gun-free zones.”
Channel those lamentations into preparedness. It makes it a bit easier to swallow, just a bit.
FBI crime stats for homicide Sandy Hook , Newtown Conn for the year 2012. ZERO .
Sandy Hook was a Homeland Hoax.
Look it up yourself, I’m done.
It was also a Civil defense "drill".
Maybe before Waco and Ruby Ridge.
I’ll begin to respect them when we see them cuff Holder and frog march his arse in front of the world.
Actually, the real FBI was under Hoover. After that, too many political leaders.
As I said, “maybe”.
“The stupidity in this Nation makes me want to cry. Daily.”
Tell me about it.
The media will now expect the FBI to support Libera causes.....the word has gone out.
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