Posted October 12, 2015 11:00 am by Comments

By Nick Leghorn

Over the last few days we’ve been learning a lot about the people behind ShootingTracker.com. It came from /r/GunsAreCool, a forum devoted expressly to the purpose of demonizing gun owners and advancing their anti-gun position, and is run by a man who admits that the site is pure propaganda. As if that’s not enough to tip you off to the fact that the numbers presented are completely bogus, one man has gone through the tracker to see what’s actually in there and if their work stands up to any form of scrutiny. The result? Even using Shooting Tracker’s own extremely loose definition of a “mass shooting” (four people shot, no matter their condition or the circumstances) the data simply doesn’t hold up. The following is a compilation of posts made by Reddit user /u/MrMember and is reprinted here with permission.

2013 – [Archived version of Shooting Tracker]

No citation and/or dead link unable to verify the story:

  • 37
  • 39
  • 40
  • 43
  • 45
  • 51 (no citation at all, citation listed points to a different shooting)
  • 80
  • 105
  • 112
  • 182
  • 221
  • 226
  • 230
  • 232
  • 256
  • 268
  • 273 (no citation at all)
  • 285 (no citation at all)
  • 287 (no citation at all)
  • 304
  • 332
  • 335
  • 353
  • 355 (no citation at all)

As for the articles with citations and working links, the …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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