Leftists Lie And News Media Forgets To Fact Check

From: Right To Bear Blog:

Democrat Lawmaker Exposed For Blatant Lie about School Shootings

Odds are unless you live in Connecticut you don’t know much about Senator Chris Murphy.

But that will all change as Murphy has been caught red-handed lying about the number of school shootings since Sandy Hook.

Even more embarrassing is Mom Demands Action role in the entire scandal.

In an effort to diminish the natural right of Americans to own a weapon Murphy was caught lying about the rate at which school shootings occur in the U.S.

He said:

“Since Sandy Hook there has been a school shooting, on average, every week. How on earth can we live with ourselves if we do nothing?”

The only problem with the statement as you’ll likely be able to tell is it’s a bald faced lie.

So where did Murphy manage to get this information in the first place?

From a report distributed by Moms Demand Action.

Bearing Arms writes about this.

Murphy used the repeatedly debunked “school shooting report” from Moms Demand Action/Everytown, which has been debunked by every major news outlet who addressed their claims.

There are many ways to define school shooting. But applying the “reasonable person” standard, as is the standard at The Fact Checker, it is difficult to see how many of the incidents included in Everytown’s list — such as suicide in a car parked on a campus or a student accidentally shooting himself when emptying his gun and putting it away in his car before school — would be considered a “school shooting” in the context of Sandy Hook.

Lawmakers have a responsibility to check out the facts in the reports they use, especially ones that come from advocacy groups. If they are aware there are definitions that are disputed, or that are defined in other ways depending on who uses them, it is incumbent on lawmakers to clarify exactly what they are talking about and not mislead the public. In particular, lawmakers should rely more on official government statistics, such as from the FBI, rather than misleading metrics cobbled together by interest groups.

The craven attempts of anti-gunners to rob us of our second amendment rights are only increasing in audacity.

Heck they’ve even enlisted the FBI to lie for them so they might be able to get a better strangle hold on the second amendment.

Can you imagine what might happen if the NRA or another pro-gun group went on stage and claimed there hasn’t been a single school shooting since Sandy Hook? The reaction would be fierce and the pro-gun movement would suffer huge credibility issues henceforth.

But Murphy’s deliberate attempts to mislead the public will be whitewashed and forgotten no sooner than the next story of gun-owner using his gun to save a life hits the Internet.

What a sad world we live in, don’t you agree?