Statistics don’t lie, but people sure as hell do, and anyone telling you there are “30+ mass shootings” so far in 2023 is a liar, and they know it.
The truth? “As of January 23, there were two mass shootings in the United States in 2023”
(Side note: both of the mass shootings in 2023 were in CA where they have all the desired gun laws.)
The accepted definition of “mass shootings” USED to be a single event where a gun was used and 4 or more people were killed. In 2013, it was changed to 3 or more victims.
Importantly, the definition specifically excluded terrorist attacks, gang shootings, robberies, and domestic violence incidents.
The current definition of “mass shootings” being used by the mainstream media via their databases that they fund (gun violence archive and the mass shooting tracker) include any incident where a gun was used and more than 1 or 4 (varies by source/incident) person was shot, whether or not they died.
The reason the real definition excludes terrorists, gangs, robberies, and domestic violence is because all of those have specific motivations outside of just killing random people.
Since the motivations for those different types of crimes are different, the solutions are also different.
The way these unscrupulous people are doing this with the statistics for “mass shootings” is the logical equivalent of lumping all medical causes of death together and suggesting there is a single medical treatment to cure them all. We all know that is not remotely accurate.
But why are they being so dishonest? The reason those various crimes are all being included now is because the people using those conflated statistics have one goal, and its not to solve the problems.
The ONLY purpose of combining vastly different crimes into a single “mass shootings” category is to use that as ammo to push gun control and move towards disarming the American population.
Don’t fall for it. Use your brains. Think critically.
