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Newsmax Claims 601 ‘Mass Shootings’ in 2022 Using Misleading Data
Breitbart ^ | 11/21/2022 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 11/21/2022 7:39:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Sunday, the day after five people were shot and killed at Colorado Springs’ Club Q, Newsmax pointed to misleading data and claimed there have been over 600 “mass shootings” in 2022.

The title of Newsmax’s November 20 article is “2022 on Record Pace With 601 Mass Shootings to Date.”

Newsmax arrived at this elevated number of mass shootings by relying on the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which counts incidents in which there are “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident,” as “mass shootings.”

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KEYWORDS: 2022; fakenewsmax; mass; newsmax; shottings
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1 posted on 11/21/2022 7:39:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“a minimum of four victims shot...”

So four stabbing deaths in Idaho and people run down by a car at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin do not count?


2 posted on 11/21/2022 7:45:50 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

No, stabbings and vehicle rammings do not count as “mass SHOOTINGS.”


3 posted on 11/21/2022 7:47:07 AM PST by thefactor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So why is this misleading? Isn’t that the commonly-used, even if somewhat arbitrary, definition?


4 posted on 11/21/2022 7:47:16 AM PST by CraigEsq
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To: thefactor

You’d think that’d be obvious.


5 posted on 11/21/2022 7:48:24 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even using their definition, the number is an outright lie.


6 posted on 11/21/2022 7:50:48 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: CraigEsq

This GVA standard is a much lower threshold for qualifying incidents as “mass shootings” than has traditionally been used. In fact, it allows incidents in which there were no fatalities to be counted as “mass shootings.”

Did you even freakin bother to READ the article?


7 posted on 11/21/2022 7:51:29 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This stat is legit, but mostly ignored by the media because, if you look at the demographics of the perpetrators of these incidents, they're about 90% black. It's a bit of a narrative monkey wrench.


8 posted on 11/21/2022 7:51:43 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Normally I wouldn’t volunteer for such a thing, but I’d love to review the data they used. I can’t imagine how bad they manipulated it to arrive at their conclusion.


9 posted on 11/21/2022 7:52:01 AM PST by qaz123 (F)
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To: thefactor; Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yeah, it says mass shootings but my brain went to mass murders too.


10 posted on 11/21/2022 7:55:13 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The media want you to think guns are scary because republicans say they’re not.

You never hear about a MAGA hat wearing (sorry jussie), gun-rack pickup driving good old boy shooting anything up except during hunting season. It’s always the gang-bangers who shoot on the streets and the medicated, depressed soy drinking disaffected young men who walk into buildings and spray.

But who do they want to go after?


11 posted on 11/21/2022 7:57:17 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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You never hear about a MAGA hat wearing (sorry jussie), gun-rack pickup driving good old boy shooting anything up except during hunting season. It’s always the gang-bangers who shoot on the streets and the medicated, depressed soy drinking disaffected young men who walk into buildings and spray.

Sure! But who are you going to believe the constant droning of our ENEMEDIA, or you own lying, racist, bigoted eyes?!?
12 posted on 11/21/2022 8:04:11 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: dead

Those AR-15 owners look pretty diverse.


13 posted on 11/21/2022 8:09:45 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Newsmax pimping the numbers to make Biden look bad. That’s obvious and I understand their reasons.


14 posted on 11/21/2022 8:21:58 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Footnote: 567 of the mass shootings happened in Chicago with handguns.


15 posted on 11/21/2022 8:39:47 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Theoria

But Biden will just blame the guns.... not the criminals and his minions will parrot it and the left will believe it.


16 posted on 11/21/2022 8:41:28 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

Yes but all those guns came from Indiana. So we are told. /s


17 posted on 11/21/2022 8:44:30 AM PST by pas
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To: MrRelevant

Sure, that’s always the case.


18 posted on 11/21/2022 8:46:55 AM PST by Theoria
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And of that 600, how many are in Chicago alone?


19 posted on 11/21/2022 8:57:24 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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When you eliminate those in large cities, the number drops dramatically. That’s because most of these shooting are gang related and should be celebrated by law abiding citizens.

Of course, when a white guy shoots, then it is national news.

The feds want to solve the problem of drunk driving by banning the sale and use of tires.


20 posted on 11/21/2022 9:07:34 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP
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