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Chris Lynn @SecondProtector

almost 3 years ago

This is an excellent assessment of just one of many elements of the gun controllers' propaganda.

Kostas Moros

@MorosKostas

almost 3 years ago

The dishonesty on display with the GVA figure is staggering. Their "mass shooting" tracker simply does not track mass shootings as the public understands that term. If they wanted to call their listing "any incident where multiple people were shot", that'd be fine, because that is what they are actually tracking, not mass shootings. The term "mass shooting" has a very specific connotation, and GVA abuses that to try and trick people into thinking we have had over 400 Monterey Parks this year, or what have you. Take, for example, the most recent entry in GVA's log: The Lafayette [Louisiana] Police Department responded to the 100 block of S. General Marshall St. Lafayette, LA 70501, in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival responding Officers located a residence in the area of which the dispatched call had originated. As Officers made contact with the believed parties involved in the altercation, Officers were engaged in gunfire by the suspect. The suspect was able to fire gunshots upon and strike two uniformed LPD Officers. As a result of the suspect actively shooting and injuring two LPD Officers, an additional responding Officer was forced to engage the suspect by returning gunfire. It was later determined that three additional victims were struck by gunfire during the shooting incident. This is a terrible occurrence, but it's just not the same thing as some lunatic trying to wipe out everyone in a grocery store or school for no reason. Stop trying to mislead people into siding with you. They can't be more honest of course, because if they were, they'd have to call so many of these incidents gang-related violence, predominantly in failed cities run by their favored party no less. That is far less compelling an argument for gun control than tricking people into thinking there is a Uvalde every day. Major news media should not uncritically repeat the "mass shooting" tally of GVA without being clear to its audience what the precise definition is, and how it is very different than the popular understanding of what constitutes a mass shooting.

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