{"id":2998,"date":"2024-03-19T18:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:51:44","slug":"anti-gun-everytown-employs-propaganda-fake-numbers-in-juvenile-shooting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gun Everytown Employs Propaganda, Fake Numbers in Juvenile Shooting Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gun-child-courtesy-radkids.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"While everyone must strive to keep guns out of  unintentional hands, reports by Everytown on how often his happens among children with tragic results is greatly exaggerated.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"350\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gun-child-courtesy-radkids.com_.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gun-child-courtesy-radkids.com_.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gun-child-courtesy-radkids.com_-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gun child (courtesy radkids.com)\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While everyone must strive to keep guns out of unintentional hands, reports by Everytown on how often his happens among children with tragic results is greatly exaggerated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children unintentionally shot and killed more than 157 people last year and wounded more than 270, or so Everytown for Gun Safety would have you believe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/unintentional-shootings-children-everytown-gun-safety-rcna143411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News was the first media outlet to lap up this fake-news story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe children who pulled the trigger were most often teenagers ages 14 to 17 or children ages 5 and under, according to Everytown\u2019s data, which is compiled from media reports,\u201d the NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/unintentional-shootings-children-everytown-gun-safety-rcna143411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story<\/a> claims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therein lies the problem: <a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/maps\/notanaccident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everytown\u2019s data<\/a> is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle. It is so chock-full of errors that using it to draw any conclusion would become a study in futility. It is pure GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one wants a firearm to fall into the wrong hands. On that, everyone can agree. However, as usual, Everytown uses their fake data to advocate for more gun control, in this case mandatory storage laws, which would of course be followed by mandatory home inspections by police, to make sure gun owners were storing their firearms in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Media Reports<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very few sources are as unreliable as initial media accounts, especially when they\u2019re based upon a hasty press release sent by a law enforcement agency after a shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These press releases often contain statements made at the scene by traumatized family members, victims or witnesses, many of whom later become suspects after a more thorough investigation is conducted. These folks will attempt to dodge culpability by telling officers the gun just went off, or someone was playing with it or they were cleaning the weapon and it magically discharged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The press releases are most often reported by relative youngsters themselves \u2013 new journalists fresh out of college and working at local news outlets such as a small town paper. The absolute last thing they would ever do is question information sent by a sheriff or chief of police. Instead, the release gets a quick write-up and then lives forever on the internet, regardless of the accuracy of the initial data, until Everytown or another anti-gun aggregator uses it to support their biased views.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gang-Related Data Not Excluded \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are more than 100,000 documented gang members just in the city of Chicago. Other large cities are similarly cursed. By far, gang members and unaffiliated drug crews account for the largest number of shootings in the United States, whether they involve juveniles and\/or adults. However, news coverage of these shootings rarely addresses the gang affiliation of the shooter or victim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gangsters almost never tell police who shot them. They will be the first to make up a story about the weapon miraculously or unintentionally discharging. They seek out their own justice, which leads to more shootings. This is why most seasoned gang investigators will tell you that today\u2019s victim will be tomorrow\u2019s suspect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the entries included in <a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/maps\/notanaccident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everytown\u2019s data<\/a> involves a 2018 shooting in New Orleans. It doesn\u2019t take a criminologist to understand gang involvement likely played a role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA group of teenage boys were taking photos of themselves while posing with guns. When witnesses called the police, one of the boys, who was 14, ran away, causing a handgun in his waistband to unintentionally fire and hit him in the leg. Police are continuing to investigate the incident,\u201d the data states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gangsters shoot more people intentionally than unintentionally \u2013 the supposed topic of Everytown\u2019s report. As long as the left and the legacy media they control refuse to cull out shootings by gang members, their data will always be suspect.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Frequently impeached Source <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several of the entries in Everytown\u2019s data were based upon information from the Gun Violence Archive. To be clear, the Gun Violence Archive is not a media source. Like Everytown, it is an aggregator of media reports and, like Everytown, far from a credible source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gun Violence Archive has been debunked more than any other anti-gun group because they knowingly publish false mass-shooing data, and they don\u2019t care how it is misused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gun Violence Archive, or GVA, was founded in 2013 by Michael Klein, a left-leaning philanthropist and open-government advocate, and Mark Bryant, a retired computer analyst and GVA\u2019s current executive director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Bryant\u2019s all-inclusive definition, there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more accurate definition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the GVA collects and publishes several different types of shooting data \u2013 mass murders, number of children and teens killed or injured, officer-involved shootings, defenses gun usages and more \u2013 it is their inflated mass-shooting numbers that are cited most often by the mainstream media, given its penchant for sensational headlines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saf.org\/special-report-the-gun-violence-archive-and-its-scaring-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a previous interview<\/a> with the Second Amendment Foundation, Bryant defended his broader definition and the higher body count it yields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t parse,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives an accurate picture of the number of times more than four people were shot, whether in a drive-by or a shooting at a rap concert or a country music concert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If his higher numbers are misleading the public or being misinterpreted by journalists, it\u2019s not his fault, Bryant claimed. He believes his numbers are fair. \u201cI do, but I think it\u2019s also up to the journalist and the reader to have a better understanding of what the data says. When a journalist uses the mass-shooting numbers as their lead, they\u2019re not looking at the whole situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any database that uses GVA data cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>False CDC Claims<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most repeated falsehoods that Everytown still <a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/report\/unload-lock-and-separate-secure-storage-practices-to-reduce-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">links to their data<\/a> states that firearms \u2013 not motor vehicle deaths \u2013 are the leading cause of death for children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was factchecked last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2023\/07\/17\/fact-check-kamala-harris-falsely-claims-gun-violence-leading-cause-death-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AWR Hawkins of Breitbart News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, Hawkins found that 2,281 were children killed by firearms, but 2,503 were killed in motor vehicle crashes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMoreover, according to CDC numbers, children are 27 times more likely to die in an accidental car death than in an accidental gun death, and unintentional suffocation deaths are 10 times higher among children than accidental gun deaths,\u201d Hawkins reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everytown isn\u2019t the only anti-gun outlet to cite false CDC data. Vice President Kamala Harris has parroted the claims \u2013 even after they were factchecked \u2013 several times.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Consider the Source<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everytown for Gun Safety is bankrolled by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. It is one of his premier Astroturf (non-grassroots) gun-control groups. Everytown\u2019s action fund has more than $18 million in assets. Its support fund has more than $48 million. Bloomberg\u2019s net worth is estimated at more than $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everytown\u2019s president, John Feinblatt, is also president of the Trace, the propaganda arm of Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun empire. Both groups have become adept at creating propaganda and pumping it out to a willing media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s exactly how Everytown\u2019s latest report should be received. 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