Snopes Blows It When Fact Checking Crime Prevention Research Center On Mass Shootings

By Tom Knighton

John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center exists just to take a look at crime data, particularly crimes related to firearms. In the process, it’s found that guns aren’t the evil many anti-gun groups like to portray them as. It exists to inject some sanity into the debate about guns.

An older claim made by the CPRC started getting some circulation following the Parkland tragedy. It got enough that fact checker Snopes stepped in to try and set the record straight.

And by “set the record straight,” I mean they tried to dismiss something that went against leftist orthodoxy.

Leave it to the CPRC to smack them down.

Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News’ Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after the Florida high school shooting. They wrote: “Our conclusion is that this is accurate based on the CPRC’s definition of a mass shooting, but also extremely misleading. It uses …Read the Rest

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