Obama pushes ’18 school shootings in 2018′ narrative during speech. Here are the real stats.

By Sarah Taylor

Former President Barack Obama echoed a false anti-gun narrative during a recent speech.

The claim, which circulated following the Parkland, Florida, shooting, was that the U.S. had seen 18 school shootings since the beginning of 2018. It has been debunked several times.

What are the details?

The Washington Examiner reported that Obama pushed the narrative during his keynote speech at the CRT 2018 health conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

“If you ask me, the thing that broke my heart, particularly when now I see there have been, and I’ve gotta update this, … 18 shootings in schools this year … this year!” Obama told the audience during the speech.

He added, “And for the medical community, you see the statistics. The leading causes of death among young people in this country have all but, [car] traffic starts going down and stabilizing, gun-inflicted fatalities where you combine suicide and gun violence, it just keeps rising.”

Turning his sights to the horrific Sandy Hook school shooting and the gun-control conversation that ensued as a result, Obama said:

Probably the thing that haunts me the most is the fact that after 20 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most brutal …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze