An epic thread showing the lies cooked into the left’s fake “mass school shooting” statistics was recently posted that you just have to see.
Liberals continue to push around the claims of the rabidly anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety, using this biased group’s numbers to “prove” how many mass shootings there are in schools.
The post was made on Twitter by the Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer who revealed one lie after another in the so-called “school mass shooting” list. The numbers show a huge number of school shootings have beset the nation. But what, exactly, constitutes an actual school shooting?
From the name “school shooting,” one would think that the shooting happened in a school and took the life of an innocent child or teacher. But, it turns out that most of the incidents don’t involve innocent kids. Most of the shootings were drunk deals gone wrong and gang incidents. Even more were totally unconnected to the school and just happened to be on school property or nearby and NOT even on school property.
Check out some of the lies that Swearer found included in the “school shooting” list:
An adult couple met with strangers to buy a car in an elementary school parking lot at midnight. The sellers tried to rob them. One woman was shot in the shoulder and injured.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 3, 2022
After a high school graduation ceremony, on publicly accessible tennis courts belonging to a local college, one teenager shot two other teenagers (one fatally) and fled.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 3, 2022
There is literally one where an armed woman chased her ex-boyfriend out of the apartment, is confronted by officers near a daycare center and fatally shot…and the press release literally says the daycare center was not involved and was never in harm's way.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 3, 2022
My God, they literally count a cop who shot himself in his own vehicle vaguely near an elementary school. Presumably overnight. In mid-JULY.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 3, 2022
It doesn't get less absurd. They include an instance where, after a night game for an adult league flag football league, a man fatally shot a member of the opposing team because of an on-field dispute…solely because it happened behind an elementary school.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 3, 2022
We've got "a couple shots fired near a middle school baseball field on a Friday evening while a 20 year old and friends were taking batting practice," apparently not directed at anyone associated with the school, and as far as anyone can tell there were no injuries.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
*Guys these examples are all just from the 2021-2022 school year numbers*
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
Woodbridge isn't that from me and I had no idea. The armed man threatened during a domestic dispute in a nearby home, then fired off a shotgun round on school property. Staff members rightly notified the SRO, who requested additional officers and locked down the school.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
Atlanta in March, an SRO shot and wounded a parent who showed up brandishing a gun at high school students and staff during school dismissal. She's been charged with a whole bathtub full of criminal offenses.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
Everyone is over here whining about "but Everytown counts 'gunfire at schools' and not 'school shootings'" as though this is somehow now an honest framing of the issue. So let's do some other databases.
EducationWeek: https://t.co/cdBtqsMKes
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
Student shot near a school AFTER the basketball game? Now a school shooting.
Student shot in a parking lot 45 minutes after school ended? Now a school shooting.
Interpersonal dispute after school in a parking lot? Now a school shooting.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
A gang-related incident outside of a school stadium in a parking lot? Congrats. Now a school shooting.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
So let me repeat: this isn't about justifying some "acceptable" number of school shootings or being fine with non-school violence. It's about groups intentionally manipulating people's perception of the problem so that they're more likely to side with an extreme policy approach.
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) June 4, 2022
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