United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “gun violence” constitutes a public health crisis Tuesday but cited fake mass-shooting data from the long-debunked Gun Violence Archive to support his spurious claims.
“While mass shooting deaths represent only about 1% of all firearm‑related deaths in the U.S., the number of mass shooting incidents is increasing. According to data published by Gun Violence Archive, the U.S. experienced more than 600 mass shooting incidents each year between 2020 and 2023, compared to an average of less than 400 annual mass shooting incidents between 2015 and 2018,” the Surgeon General’s advisory states.
In his report, Murthy cites data from the Gun Violence Archive more than four times.
Founded in 2013, the GVA quickly became the administration’s source of choice for mass-shooting data because they hype the numbers. The small nonprofit came up with its own extremely broad definition of a mass shooting, which says anytime four or more people are killed or even slightly wounded with a firearm regardless of the circumstances, it’s a mass shooting. For example, according to the GVA there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more realistic definition, which excludes gang-related and drug-related shootings, which the GVA includes in its data.
Murthy is not the only member of the Biden-Harris administration to use fake data from the GVA. Biden and his handlers have cited GVA’s mass-shooting data throughout his presidency in speeches, written statements and social media.
BSA was worried about losing donations and membership because they weren’t “inclusive” enough.
As a non-secular organization God was at their core belief. The BSA was totally inclusive provided you believed in God. Didn’t matter which one, as long as you believed. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., all at a place within BSA. That was why Boy Scouts is a world wide organization.
But then atheists decided to tell what was essentially a religious group that they had to put aside their religious beliefs. That’s like atheists telling the Roman Catholic Church they had to accept non-believers and accommodate them, altering sermons, Bible studies, etc.
Then came allowing homosexual scout leaders. What a recipe for disaster, especially after the BSA already had a lot of baggage with male scout leaders molesting male scouts. Which no matter how much spin you put on it is homosexual pedophilia.
Then they had to allow girls and LBGTQEIEIO.
Somewhere along this slow motion train wreck the LDS, who were a huge subset of BSA, decided to have the its church form their own scouts. They up and left and took about 1/6th of all BSA revenue with them. Which ironically is what those trying to morph scouting to fit them should have done – form their own groups.
Now the perplexed leaders of BSA are renaming it to ‘Scouting America’, in order to further alienate their membership and donors.
This is nearing the end. Only a matter of time before they auger in. Another classic moral institution destroyed by the Church of Woke, Altar of Inclusiveness and Temple of Moloch.
This is what happens when you compromise your core principles. Pretty soon, you have no principles left.
Hi. I’m Toshi.
I’m a retired ParaPyroPig, yellowjacket assassin, naturalized Appalachistani, greenhorn farmer, and aspiring author.
I’m voting for the Impotent Party in November, whom I dislike.
Why? I dislike the Impotent Party, but I utterly despise the Utterly Subversive Party.
While as corrupt, the Impotent Party doesn’t want to take my guns, put me into a reeducation camp, turn the USA into the USSR, and destroy western civilization.
Fans of the Impotent Party will call me a commie for not standing for their egomaniacal, megalomaniac, sociopath candidate, and congratulating them for their collective milquetoast mediocrity.
Fans of the Utterly Subversive Party will call me an ammosexual racist nazi islamophobe, and will assault, threaten, doxx, SWAT, and otherwise terrorize my family, for not supporting their babbling, senile dementia candidate.
I loathe politics, and the overwhelming majority of politicians.
Zeek Arkham :
You all need to take it easy on Biden. We’ve all had an uncle who was an ace pilot, who crashed in New Guinea, and was eaten by cannibals.
If you can’t take the word of a valedictorian law student, truck driver, football player, lifeguard, who marched in the Civil Rights struggle and was locked up with Nelson Mandela, but was also besties with a KKK Grand Dragon (who was really, really sorry about it right before he died), then whose word can you take?
No other country in the world would accept one single rocket fired into its territory.
Jews are told to feed the people raping their women and killing their children.
…Roe v. Wade order allowed politicians to be cowards.
They could talk tough on abortion while hiding behind justices’ robes when voters asked them to back up their rhetoric.
Those days are gone.
Every state senator and representative now needs to put their vote where their mouth is. Do they support a total abortion ban, a 15-week ban, or no bans at all?
No doubt, this makes many of them uncomfortable. Oh well. That’s the job they signed up for.
TUCKER: “So, twice you’ve described U.S. Presidents making decisions and then being undercut by their agency heads. So, it sounds like you’re describing a system that’s not run by the people who are elected in your telling.”
PUTIN: “That’s right. That’s right.”
Eventually the dam will break and the aftermath will not be an enjoyable experience for anyone. https://t.co/ddXfAlKnkk
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Nevertheless, like so much else in the Bill of Rights, those sentiments are no longer valid, especially when you’re shuffling your way, shoeless and beltless, through the sheep pens of the Transportation Security Administration, George W. Bush’s gift to the American traveling public.
In retrospect, it’s clear that Osama bin Laden emerged the victor of 9/11. He brought down the Twin Towers and took a chunk out of the Pentagon, severely wobbled the American economy, destroyed the freedom of the skies, set the American government haring after all sorts of villains but not a single enemy it would name, and made himself a martyr. Worst of all, because of the actions of 19 Muslim hijackers, most of them Saudi nationals but all of them members of the Islamic ummah, he panicked the U.S. government into presumptively criminalizing more than 300 million American citizens with the passage of the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and of the TSA, a mortal sin that will live in infamy.
What about safety? Surely you jest. To previous generations of Americans, the idea of trading liberty for safety would have been laughed out of court, but a fearful, feminized society won’t even hesitate. Curtail your freedom of movement and subject yourself to intrusive, sometimes bodily, inspection every time you wish to travel by plane? Why not? If it saves just one life…
Feel safer yet?
More than twenty years later, it’s clear to everyone who flies that what we have is not safety, but safety theater — the illusion of safety, conducted by uniformed government employees of last resort whose mission as it has evolved is not to provide the phantasm of “security” but to obstruct, hamper, harass, and hinder Americans as they attempt to go about their lives. “The Transportation Security Administration marked another year of progress,” reads a blurb on their website. You can bet more “progress” will be forthcoming in 2024.
And was this unconscionable violation of the plain language of the Constitution met with the universal opposition, disdain, and outrage that it deserved? Of course not. From 1968 to 1972 there was a spate of airplane hijackings by Cuban radicals; “On to Cuba!” became a punch line on late-night comedy, and the introduction of metal detectors at airports and the presence of sky marshals put an end to it. After 9/11, the appearance of one failed “shoe bomber” has meant your shoes come off forever. And while the new, improved, intrusive TSA might manage to scoop up some weapons inadvertently packed in luggage from those parts of the country where guns or knives are part of everyday life, it misses many, many more — up to 70 percent. Possibly it has discouraged a few terrorists from attempting to emulate the late sheikh of Araby, but why bother? After all, why hijack a plane when you can just walk across the undefended, roundheeled southern border, get free transport — no ID necessary! — into the interior and there bide your time?
Note that the ongoing “unarmed” (so far) invasion from the south is referred to as a “humanitarian crisis” in the Soviet Newspeak jargon of the news media, when in fact it’s an… unarmed (so far) invasion from the south and thus a national-security matter. Not to the Biden administration, however, especially as personified by the hapless, malevolent, and soon-to-be-impeached Alejandro Mayorkas, the current Secretary of Homeland Security.
It turns out that not interfering with people’s constitutional rights and allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves from criminals who don’t care about gun laws (you know, because they’re criminals) makes criminals think twice before attempting to victimize them.
Notice there’s nothing about diversity, equity, inclusion, or climate?
Or, as a comment notes: I suspect that the pollsters have told the WH that DEI has become a losing issue especially among ethnic whites, and the word has gotten out to tone down the rhetoric during this election season. I think it would be best to judge the new CNO by what she does and not what she says.
Comment O’ The Day Sporting rifle or ” weapon of war” – doesn’t matter. The very point of the 2A was to acknowledge that we possess the right to own & bear weapons = to those of the government/military in order to protect ourselves from tyranny
Observation O’ The Day
I like how they’re shifting gears to shameless engagement farming, now.
Comment O’ The Day Whenever you see some disarmament ‘tard write “most gun owners”, it’s a lie. Ridicule and ignore them.
“known to the goobermint….”
It’s not like it’s a bug, but a feature. and it is awful convenient
Attorney Mark W. Smith of Four Boxes Diner on YouTube:
#2A So, let me get this straight. Assuming that the bulletin below is authentic, then according to the Maine government, the alleged Maine shooter WORKED for the Government and was apparently known BY THE GOVERNMENT to be having major mental health issues including THREATENING… https://t.co/3tBJxbMnV6
Comment O’ The Day Let’s call this what it is: The sex groomer Stasi.
BLUF
Make no mistake: This bill does involve training teachers to profile parents based on the likelihood that they may secretly harbor heresy against the transgender state religion
“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children” might as well become the new slogan of the Golden State.
California’s Legislature has passed—or is about to pass—a slew of bills aimed at undermining the rights of parents (and potential foster parents) who disagree with the transgender worldview.
What would the state need to launch a transgender inquisition? It would need inquisitors to identify and hunt down parents who dared to dissent from gender ideology. It would need an apparatus to induct kids into its cult while keeping parents in the dark. It would need institutions to screen potential foster parents to block heretics from fostering or adopting kids who might convert to the state religion. Most importantly, it would need a legal way to pry kids from the arms of their apostate progenitors.
These legislative proposals foot that bill. One of them would train teachers to profile these hated “anti-LGBTQ” parents, another would train psychotherapists to prepare to hide gender “treatments” from parents at a minor’s request, a third would prevent school districts from removing sexually explicit books if they contain transgender themes, a fourth would prevent Californians from becoming foster parents if they dissent from gender ideology, and the fifth would expand the definition of child abuse to include “non-affirmation” of a child’s claimed transgender identity.
In a supreme Orwellian irony, each of these California bills claims to uphold the virtues of “diversity” and “inclusion,” while forcing down parents’ throats a constricting worldview at odds with reality and seeking to exclude moms and dads from raising their own children if they dare to disagree.
Jeff Goldstein. It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: when you allow the government to override your rights in the name of ‘safety’ during an ’emergency,’ the government is then incentivized to frame everything as an issue of safety, requiring an ’emergency’ edict to properly and necessarily address.
