Everytown For Gun Safety Liar, Shannon Watts
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When I heard this headline–74 school shootings in America since 2012–thoughtlessly repeated by many media sources, my BS meter pegged and began smoking. From Shannon Watts of Everytown For Gun Safety:
“Since the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, CT, there have been at least 74 school shootings in America. How many more before our leaders pass common-sense laws to prevent gun violence and save lives?”
Because firearm policy is a frequent topic on this scruffy little blog, and also occupies a good part of my writings elsewhere on the Internet, I keep close track of school shootings, and I knew I could not possibly have missed such a huge number of actual school attacks. And so I haven’t.
Nick Leghorn at The Truth About Guns, provides the facts. As one might suspect from a Michael Bloomberg funded, astroturf anti-gun group, substantial liberty has been taken with the truth in the hope of taking substantial liberty from the law-abiding.
By all means, take the link and take a shower in reality. Another source that provides a brief description of the reality of each of Everytown’s false claims is here.
How many of the supposed 74 were actually what a reasonable person might call a school shooting? About seven–maybe. That’s Obama-level lying.
Stately McDaniel Manor 
Reblogged this on theThumpHouse.
What do you mean by “Obama Level Lying”?
Dear jspurr01:
Good question. I mean lies such as you can keep your insurance and your doctor and every family will save $2500 on premiums. Lies such as there is not a smidgen of corruption at the IRS, and Benghazi was caused by a video virtually no one had ever heard of or seen.
All politicians stretch the truth, but few lie so obviously, blatantly, and so casually about things meaningless and meaningful. And as with most of Mr. Obama’s lies, this one was easily debunked.
I doubt that he has made any speeches that did not contain at least one lie. Some of them are nothing but lies.