It’s easy to fact-check Al. All he does is lie.<\/p>\n
Fact Check: Al Sharpton Says No Mass Killings Without \u2018Mass Instruments\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n CLAIM: During a Friday appearance on MSNBC, Al Sharpton bemoaned the inability to secure more gun control and claimed there would be no mass killings without \u201cmass instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n VERDICT: False.<\/p>\n Breitbart News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Sharpton suggested gun control can be pursued under the banner of \u201ccivil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to say that whether gun control is pursued as a civil right or \u201cjust on guns, people cannot do mass killings unless they have mass instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n Sharpton focused on AR-15s and suggested he is shocked by people who say, \u201cNo, we\u2019re not giving up our AR-15s.\u201d<\/p>\n He did not mention the work done via a partnership between Northeastern University, the Associated Press, and\u00a0USA Today<\/em>, which traces \u201cmass killings\u201d back to 2006\u00a0and shows<\/a>\u00a0\u201csemiautomatic handguns are far more common in mass killings than guns that are typically characterized as assault weapons, such as the AR-15.\u201d<\/p>\n Graphs used by Northeastern\/AP\/USA Today<\/em> show handguns are used in \u201cmass killings\u201d almost twice as much as \u201clong guns,\u201d the latter being a category which includes shotguns, rifles of every kind, etc.<\/p>\n During the MSNBC segment, Sharpton pointed to the August 26, 2023, Jacksonville, Florida, shooting in which a man with an AR-15 killed three people at a Dollar General store. He did not mention the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech shooting, in which an attacker with two handguns killed 32 people.<\/p>\n Sharpton also\u00a0omitted<\/a>\u00a0the November 21, 2021, incident in which Darrell Brooks Jr. drove over people during a Milwaukee parade, killing six.<\/p>\n He left out the July 14, 2016, attack in Nice, France, in which a terrorist used a truck to kill 86 people and failed to mention the September 11, 2001, attacks, in which airplanes were weaponized to kill nearly 3,000 people.<\/p>\n Sharpton\u2019s claim is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s easy to fact-check Al. All he does is lie. Fact Check: Al Sharpton Says No Mass Killings Without \u2018Mass Instruments\u2019 CLAIM: During a Friday appearance on MSNBC, Al Sharpton bemoaned the inability to secure more gun control and claimed there would be no mass killings without \u201cmass instruments.\u201d VERDICT: False. Breitbart News\u00a0reported\u00a0Sharpton suggested gun … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,24,8,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mendacity","category-rights","category-rkba","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96302,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96300\/revisions\/96302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}