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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“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?
No, stabbings and vehicle rammings do not count as “mass SHOOTINGS.”
So why is this misleading? Isn’t that the commonly-used, even if somewhat arbitrary, definition?
You’d think that’d be obvious.
Even using their definition, the number is an outright lie.
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?
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.
Yeah, it says mass shootings but my brain went to mass murders too.
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?
Those AR-15 owners look pretty diverse.
Newsmax pimping the numbers to make Biden look bad. That’s obvious and I understand their reasons.
Footnote: 567 of the mass shootings happened in Chicago with handguns.
But Biden will just blame the guns.... not the criminals and his minions will parrot it and the left will believe it.
Yes but all those guns came from Indiana. So we are told. /s
Sure, that’s always the case.
And of that 600, how many are in Chicago alone?
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.
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