Gutfeld: 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook? Not so fast
So Yahoo! News -- which is news for yahoos --
reports that there have been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook, a statistic that has the luxury of being unburdened by fact.
By inflating statistics, you magnify the distrust already present in a public who sense your fibs are leading to force.
- Greg Gutfeld
As
Charles C. Johnson points out, some of these shootings didn't occur on campuses, fewer than seven were mass shootings and one probably didn't exist.
The 74 lie comes from Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group, which got there by counting all sorts of stuff. CNN took it apart, concluding there were 15, not 74 of these shootings.
Now, before you say 15 is still too much, if that's true, then why exaggerate? By inflating statistics, you magnify the distrust already present in a public who sense your fibs are leading to force. Distorting tragedy to push for sweeping reform prevents real progress from stopping madmen.
Here's some facts:
Crime has been dropping for decades. Mass shootings haven't gone up.
What you can glean from recent shootings, however, is one root cause: us.
The copycat killers of recent times were obsessed with prior themes: Sandy Hook with the Norway guy, others with Columbine. The desire for infamy, the same as fame in our sad culture, is handed out like free cheese from a mindless media who fail to see the connection. I do. Remember Rolling Stone's Tsarnaev cover? He was the bomb.
And yet, we're shamed by our president, who says we have to do some soul searching. He's arrogantly wrong, but how is that news?
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/ ... ot-so-fast
Old Pudfark sez: " How's that fer re-butt-all ? "
