gunsandgunquestions:

Alright, sadly its that time again where every gunblr blog is hot on the heels of dipshit fandom blogs who are talking about stuff they know absolutely nothing about. Yes, courtesy of this new shooting, every John, Jane and Susan are pretending they really care about gun control when in reality they know jack shit outside of what CNN or some other news agency tells them. 

Now, I’m not gonna try to chase down said John, Jane and Susan’s like other blogs on this site, because that gets old as hell both for you to scroll through and for me to write. But, I’ve noticed a recurring meme with the past few mass shootings, in which numbers get dropped on how many have occurred in the US. So I decided to do some digging and found this.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/mass-shooting?sort=asc&order=State

This is the sauce behind those claims, and it’s one of the most bullshit line ups I’ve ever seen. Now, not in HOW it gets the shootings because it does a fairly good job in sourcing out actual events and providing people with said source. But there’s 2 big problems with it.

1: Most of these aren’t actual mass shootings, which I can more blame with how lax people have been interpreting a mass shooting in recent years but it still is disingenuous as hell. For the most part, the page will be a sea of stuff like “0 dead, 2-5 injured”. Nothing good but placing it on the same tier as a large shooting like Parkland just comes off as desperate to prop up the numbers.

2: A TON of the shootings are in major cities and are gang violence related. You can tell mostly by the fact they’re always in specific locations. Let me give an example. Hitting the “city or county” tab, this is what I found. 

Chicago, the city with some of the tightest gun control in the world, takes up a solid 5 ½ pages. St. Louis takes up 2. California takes up 8 ½ and it’s hard to get an exact estimate for LA given they break this up by the districts in a city. Same for NYC.

So as a test of my theory, I went through ALL of this years incidents and did them based off a specific ruling. It has to be a proper mass shooting of 4 or more fatalities, not some isolated gang fight where no one died. By doing that, the ludicrous numbers I’ve seen go from 232~  all the way down to 8. 

8. Fucking 8. In all of 2018. All I did was simply put a standard on it. If I dropped it down to 3 then it would’ve been 15~ and that would be including a lot of gang shootings and plain murder-suicides. That’s how they’re selling these overinflated numbers to people, by just chalking up everything as a mass shooting. Don’t take anything people post as “hard evidence” on this shooting at face value, don’t give your rights over to a bunch of screaming children who will stop caring about this by September and stick to double checking every source possible for those bullshit statistics they bring out.