Posted on 02/28/2018 11:25:29 AM PST by richardb72
Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety “is most famous for its running tally of school shootings,” according to the Washington Post. When Everytown tweeted out the claim that there had been 18 school shootings so far this year as of Feb. 14 — immediately after the Florida high school attack — the claim spread like wildfire. News organizations — including ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, NPR, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Politico, Time, MSN, the BBC, the New York Daily News and HuffPost — noted the statistic in their news reports or hosted experts who cited the number.
Bloomberg’s gun control groups should have lost all credibility by now. But it hardly seems that there would be much of a gun control debate these days without the many hundreds of millions of dollars that Bloomberg has spent fighting this issue.
The Wall Street Journal published a detailed expose before the Florida shooting, when it debunked Everytown’s claim that there had been 11 school shootings just in the first 25 days of the year. Among these “school shootings”: “A school-bus window was broken by a pellet gun in Forest City, Iowa,” and “A gun was accidentally discharged in a weapons class at a Denison, Texas, community college.”
Another shooting involved a military veteran with no connection to the school killing himself in his car while in the school parking lot. The list later included more suicides and a police officer who accidentally discharged his gun.
The Washington Post blasted Everytown’s “18 school shootings” claim in a Feb. 15 review: “That number is flat wrong.” The liberal-leaning Politifact concluded: “Only three of those incidents, including Florida, involved multiple gunshots inside of a school that caused deaths or an injury.” Only two of the three cases involved fatalities.....
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SuperSize me with a 50 caliber
Lyin Demoncrats. What a surprise.
I wonder if fmr Seattle mayor Ed Murray is still a member of Everytown and friends with Bloomie? He’ currently under investigtion now that some young men, including his cousin came forward claiming he molested them when they were kids.Just one example. Look at the backgrounds of other members of this group.
Lying Leftists know that the lazy/biased reporters will print anything that moves the gun control program forward. That it’s always Fake News doesn’t matter.
Bloomberg is a LIEberal!
LIEberals LIE!
What else do we need to know?
If the facts contradict the narrative, then the facts lie.
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