Michael Bloomberg, you have some explaining to do.
Yesterday, Mom’s Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety, the conjoined gun control cult bought and paid for by the miniature billionaire, claimed that there have been an impossibly high 74 school shootings since a deranged teen murdered his mother before slaughtering 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The 74 school shootings since Newtown. Map via @voxdotcom: http://t.co/fct9svsNEP #RHShooting pic.twitter.com/qiwENwIqJP
— Everytown (@Everytown) June 10, 2014
#RHShooting is the 74th school shooting since Newtown. http://t.co/3LKv1KPZDV #MomsDemand #NotOneMore pic.twitter.com/yEtN9xcAXx — Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) June 10, 2014
The claims were quickly echoed—uncritically, and without even a cursory attempt at fact-checking—by reporters and editors from news outlets that should have know better. Shannon Watts of Mom’s Demand and Erika Soto Lamb of Everytown might have gotten away with their outlandish claims… except that journalist Charles C. Johnson started looking at the underlying data for their claims, and posted what he found on Twitter in real-time as he found it. As he did so, the blatant deception from Bloomberg’s gun control harpies quickly fell apart.
Overwhelming majority of fake school shootings listed by Everytown are gang-related, drug-related, crime-related or suicides.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
@ChuckCJohnson “School shooting” at West Side Elementary was gun in a backpack that didn’t hurt anybody. http://t.co/RhjG5AybL6
— James Coates (@jccoates1983) June 11, 2014
“School shooting” listed by Everytown at Milwaukee school was crossfire from gang battle. http://t.co/PjXUxqg699
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Fake “school shooting” at Georgia Gwinnett College was suicide attempt. http://t.co/ML7cTDZIbF
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
“School shooting” listed by Everytown was accidental discharge by buddy from bullet that ricocheted off floor. Oops. https://t.co/DHD9ucGHze
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Pair of shootings at Paine College listed by Everytown are drug related. (Everytown gets location of college wrong.) http://t.co/yhlm5CySoW
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Teen shot in gang altercation playing basketball on the weekend. http://t.co/4PCqEPv62S
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Marquette University “school shooting” listed by Everytown is a robbery that went bad. Not fatal. http://t.co/V6xnhKd908
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Fake school shooting by Everytown at Iowa Western University is mugging gone bad. http://t.co/VOBvmoXzCQ
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
The Utah school shooting that Everytown lists isn’t a school shooting but a suicide attempt. http://t.co/8RS5mn8p8S #RHShooting #NotOneMore
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Everytown says estranged husband killing wife in Catholic school parking lot is a school shooting. Huh? http://t.co/Y6i4ifxwit
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Fake “School shooting” from Everytown in Detroit was actually gang bangers firing into crowd. http://t.co/cJVkdS3QbB
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Another fake school shooting from Everytown. Kent State student shoots self in hand, bought gun for protection. http://t.co/BzuogFI1AH
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Another fake Everytown “school shooting.” University of Wisc-Oshkosh shooting was at a dance, shot into the ceiling. http://t.co/SOX2wGN046
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Madison High School “school shooting” was drive by gun battle. http://t.co/aO5uwQIIBC
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
“School shooting” at Raytown Success Academy, MO was in parking lot, not school related.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
Union University “school shooting” listed by Everytown gun map was guy shooting his fiancee in parking lot. Staged it to look like suicide.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014
We could go on, but it is simply more of the same.
Sadly, this is just part of a pattern of deceptive behavior, and isn’t atypical. If Michael Bloomberg cared about the credibility of his gun control groups in the slightest, he’d fire Moms Demand founder Shannon Watts and Everytown fantasist Erika Soto Lamb along with their staffs for continually deceiving the media and their own supporters.
Of course, that’s assuming that he cares that his minions are lying to his supporters…
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