‘Wow’: Journalist Attempts to ‘Debunk’ Anti-Gun Group’s List of ‘School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook’ — Here’s What He Found | TheBlaze.com

‘Wow’: Journalist Attempts to ‘Debunk’ Anti-Gun Group’s List of ‘School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook’ — Here’s What He Found | TheBlaze.com

Everytown for Gun safety, an anti-gun group formed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and prominent gun control advocate Shannon Watts, released new data on Tuesday suggesting that there have been an average of 1.37 school shootings every single week in the U.S. since the deadly 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

The anti-gun organization cites a total of 74 school shootings since Dec. 14, 2012. However, several of the shootings have come under scrutiny as some of them appear to have occurred off-campus and at least one may have been an instance of self-defense.

Journalist Charles C. Johnson dug deeper into Everytown’s data on Tuesday and published his findings on Twitter. He also criticized the fact that the group classified violent disputes and gang-related violence as “school shootings.”

“It’s not a school shooting when someone goes and shoots a specific person on campus. It’s a shooting that happens to take place at school,” he wrote.

And in the comments we can find....

zapparules -Jun. 11, 2014 at 1:23am

“It’s not a school shooting when someone goes and shoots a specific person on campus. It’s a shooting that happens to take place at school,”

Does this guy do stand-up comedy? If that comment wasn’t so sad it’d be funny.

With that kind of logic I guess one could argue something like: It’s not domestic violence when a spouse goes and abuses the specific other spouse or specifically their children. It’s violence that happens to take place at home, within the family unit,”

Amazing. Simply amazing.

fortherecord -Jun. 11, 2014 at 3:23am

It’s also a “school shooting” when some gang banger shoots a rival gang banger using a gun that was smuggled in illegally from South of the border.
No new anti 2nd Amendment laws, will ever have an effect on that, but strict enforcement of the protection of our borders, would.
So would a crackdown on gang violence.

mikechga -Jun. 11, 2014 at 8:14am

zapparules – I love the way you prove the OPPOSITE point. Although your example rambles, it seems to say, “It’s domestic violence if it takes place in the home.” Well, a burglar comes into your house and you beat them down, it is NOT domestic violence. You and your friend get in a fight over the Spurs game … that is NOT domestic violence. Just because it takes place in your domicile does NOT make it domestic violence.
Likewise, if Al Qaeda shoots up a school yard, it is NOT a school-shooting. If a B-1 accidentally drops a bomb on a schoolyard, it is NOT a school-shooting. And gangsters shooting at each other at 9PM is NOT a school-shooting. This Bloomberg group is trying to imply that someone shoots up a schoolyard 1.37 times a week and that is NOT what’s going on. And you need to know, they are aiming at people like you who can’t tell the difference.