Newsmax Claims 601 ‘Mass Shootings’ in 2022 Using Misleading Data

Breitbart ^ | 11/21/2022 | AWR HAWKINS

[SaxxonWoods]

What’s the number if you drop the typical weekend festivities in Chicago?

[HamiltonJay]

Two yellow journalism sights argue about whose more yellow…

Gotta love it.

[Robert A Cook PE]

567 of the mass shootings happened in Chicago with handguns.

??? Could be true.

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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.” It also allows gang incidents, drive-by shootings, and other common street crimes to be counted as “mass shootings.”

Those are "mass shootings." Official statistics just don't count them as such for political reasons.

I wonder if singling out some shootings from others and giving them massive publicity doesn't encourage publicity-seeking nutjobs to kill as a way of attaining fame and superstardom.

If what a shooter is doing is just what happens in Chicago over the weekend, maybe fewer people would become "mass shooters."

[Vaduz]

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