Thread by Amy Swearer
I’m going through 2022 school shooting data, and this is your friendly reminder that many gun control groups routinely inflate school shooting numbers to scare people into thinking Uvalde happens every week. It doesn’t.
Here a few of my favorite inclusions from Everytown:
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.
A 27-year-old man was found fatally shot in his car behind a school building on a Sunday.
A 20-year-old was found fatally shot behind a school building at 1:00 a.m.
Another man was fatally shot in a school parking lot at 6:40 am on a Sunday.
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.
A teenager shot another teenager on an elementary school’s property on a Sunday.
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.
Are these all instances of gun violence? Yes. Are they all problematic in their own right? Yes. But packaging these as part of some “school shooting” epidemic is dishonest nonsense.
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