How The Media, Gun Control Advocates Misrepresent Facts On School Shootings

By Tom Knighton

No one feels well when they hear about a mass shooting at a school. For a parent, it twists your stomach as you begin imagining what it must be like for the parents of children at that school. Then you think, “What if it was my kid?”

Now, imagine you’re reading up on the news and you see that there have been 11 school shootings this year. Once you get past wonder how you missed news on the other ten, you’re probably going to start wondering why it’s such a massive problem that we’ve had 11 school shootings in the first month of 2018.

Except, we haven’t.

Stephen Gutkowski at the Washington Free Beacon took a look at the claim and found it to be a load of bull.

That count, created by Everytown for Gun Safety, claims there have been 11 school shootings thus far in 2018. However, nearly all of the incidents included alongside the Marshall County shooting bear little or no resemblance to that shooting or other well-publicized school shootings, like those at Sandy Hook Elementary or Columbine High School. None of the other events included in the gun-control group’s …Read the Rest

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