CNN Slashes School Shooting Stats Claim By 80 Percent

dailycaller.com ^ | 6/11/2014 | Chuck Ross

[rktman]

CNN has drastically revised a claim it made, which was based on a graphical map from a pro-gun control group, which purportedly showed that 74 school shootings have occurred in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in Dec. 2012.

The news outlet circulated the graphical map, which came from the group Everytown for Gun Safety, after a shooting that occurred Tuesday at a high school in Oregon which left two dead, including the 15 year-old gunman.

Everytown for Gun Safety, which is backed by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, headlined their graphic “School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook,” suggesting that the shootings it listed had a link of some kind to Sandy Hook — in which Adam Lanza killed 26 people at an elementary school.

[rktman]

Yeah, but did they apologize to their 3 viewers? Except, of course, those trapped in airports.

[ilgipper]

so upon telling a leftie that their propaganda is a lie and it’s 80% less than they claim...their answer will be what? ‘Waaa, so there’s 12 shootings not 74. We have to stop all these guns on the street.” Whether it is one or 100, they are too screwed up in the head for any rational thought.

[ealgeone]

Facts don’t matter to libs....main thing is they got their talking point out and it will be regergetated by the lamestreams and other libs groups.

[cripplecreek]

I’d love to see a before and after map but I can’t find anything.

[ridesthemiles]

That map was used on local Reno news last night.

\I thought it looked pretty dense with ‘shootings’ I hadn’t heard anything about.

[cripplecreek]

I can’t remember the last time there was a school shooting in Michigan aside from the usual gang related crap in Detroit or Flint.

[tanknetter]

Bookmark.

[sodpoodle]

I understand that many do not put much stock in Wiki data, however this comprehensive listing of all school violence since the 1700’s illustrates that this phenomenon is not new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

just one excerpt:

1760s[edit]

The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only three children survived.[1]

[cripplecreek]

I found it. I'm guessing the 2 in Detroit are gang shootings because if they were mass shootings I would have known about them.



There Have Been 74 U.S. School Shootings Since Sandy Hook

[GOPJ]

Maybe CNN wants to keep their 3 viewers. They've got to start somewhere rebuilding credibility with the American people.

If CNN's come to understand that playing the fool for every democrat liar is NOT the way to be trusted... maybe there's a ‘smidgen’ of hope for 'em... Who knows, we can dream...

[cripplecreek]

The deadliest school attack was the Bath Michigan school bombing in the 1920s. The killer was Andrew Keyhoe and he was a school board member with full access.

[desertfreedom765]

That can’t be true, bombs are very illegal...

[Jack Hammer]

Pro-ban groups habitually falsify their stats; everyone - even the media - should know that by now.

[cripplecreek]

Fortunately most of the explosives failed to Detonate. He still managed to kill some 45 people, mostly children.



Keyhoe was a nutcase from childhood. When he was like 12 years old he stood idly by and watched his stepmother get burned so severely in the family kitchen that she eventually died of her injuries.

[cuban leaf]

From another site, all the fake school shootings on the map listed here
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/10/wow-journalist-attempts-to-debunk-anti-gun-groups-list-of-school-shootings-in-america-since-sandy-hook-heres-what-he-found/

The list there:

Another fake shooting listed by Everytown gun map was drug related, not on campus.http://t.co/6Cu9g6KSPK #RHShooting
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake shooting listed by everytown. A gunman ran onto campus, was chased by police, shot student accidentally. http://t.co/Q5M4iS3hhF
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by everytown. 19-year-old shot in elementary parking lot over dice game at 9 PM. http://t.co/K9Tsr2F4QE
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by everytown. Gang-involved student accidentally shot herself in thigh. http://t.co/ckndZO73nI
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014
Another fake school shooting by everytown. UCF college student committed suicide in public.http://t.co/J7svZ9OxLU

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson)June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Teen committed suicide.http://t.co/US9HYPZCHb
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson)June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Off campus, gang-related shooting in NC.http://t.co/hzlO30Sxkk
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by #everytown. Student shoots friend over money they owe for illegal gambling. http://t.co/pueIO7N7md
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by everytown. Honors student shoots self in front of class.http://t.co/8BHLTASxyT
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Northwest High School principal shot by her ex-husband on campus. http://t.co/RwwVbPmbL5
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Student killed because of gang activity.http://t.co/Q0eoKvJycQ
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Yet another fake school shooting by Everytown. Student shoots another student over dispute over Nintendo Wii payment. http://t.co/uegt1JPAr4
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Gang-related, student fist fight becomes gun fight.http://t.co/KRG4nmf92Y
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Crazy man shoots himself at high school, never went to school. http://t.co/z9ncFf7xjK
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Nearly halfway there… Another fake Everytown school shooting. Student kills self in class.http://t.co/bbWVAUFdEo
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Ex-high school student kills self in parking lot.http://t.co/AJa6DslVcT
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Gang-related drive by is now a mass shooting?http://t.co/Wrnwb2I2LT
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake shooting by Everytown. Gang-related crossfire hits bystander.http://t.co/bONNGsIYsJ
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Professor kills self on campus.http://t.co/uLbpcFNk2U
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Gang banger shoots another student in face.http://t.co/4jxIzGChf5
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Fae school shooting listed by Everytown was gang initiation in Fresno. http://t.co/giKIKyLEhz#RHShooting
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. MLK elementary school shooting was drive by. http://t.co/qb18isNVEd #RHshooting
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Fake school shooting listed by Everytown & promoted by media was gang related in Killadelphia charter school. http://t.co/UlL1ttdrqh
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

School shooting listed by Everytown map was gang-related dispute at Widener University.http://t.co/Dd6cHJqMSh
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Everytown calls Cesar Chavez High School a “school shooting”; police call it a gang turf war.http://t.co/VxDaUIp2Cw
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

“School shooting” listed by Everytown in South Caroline State University was argument that got out of hand & was off campus.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Can’t find any evidence that supposed “school shooting” at Grambling, LA on January 28, 2014 listed by Everytown even occurred.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Wow. “School shooting” listed by Everytown at Eastern Florida State College was actually self-defense. http://t.co/4TmIbxDFOL
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

“School shooting” listed by Everytown at North High School, IA in Des Moines was gang-related, in parking lot. http://t.co/PLFTUz3n9W
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Salisbury High School, NC “school shooting” listed by Everytown was gang-related, accidentally. http://t.co/uABq7JXsPM
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

“School shooting” at Brush High School, OR listed by Everytown was after hours, off campus, over a girl. Ban girls? http://t.co/PVT0uHbQvQ
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Union University “school shooting” listed by Everytown gun map was guy shooting his fiancee in parking lot. Staged it to look like suicide.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

“School shooting” at Raytown Success Academy, MO was in parking lot, not school related.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

[PapaBear3625]

More than half of the shootings happened at colleges. Any shooting which happens anywhere on a college campus was a “school shooting”. Most of the rest were high schools, and most of these were likely shoot-outs between rival gang members in the parking lot.

[desertfreedom765]

What an immense tragedy.

Evil exists in all ages. It does seem much more common now, perhaps because. Or maybe it really is much more common now.

[desertfreedom765]

Because of the media attention.

Can’t type this morning.

[MaxMax]

Have they reported the Millions of deaths caused by the EPA, yet?

[Steely Tom]

Those are called “advocacy numbers.”