As Vox Day notes, the first law of social justice warriors is that they always lie. Then they continue the lie, and build on the lie in order to push The Narrative forward. Here’s a perfect example
(Breitbart) On December 31 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed there were 372 mass shootings–or more than one mass shooting a day–during calendar year 2015. On the other hand, Mother Joneseditor Mark Follman reported four mass shootings for the whole year and USA Today reported approximately 22.
What accounts for the jump from from four–or even 22–to 372? The jump is the result of Senator Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) complete rejection of the FBI criteria for a mass shooting. That criteria is four fatalities in one shooting incident. Instead of using this, Murphy has adopted the criteria of Shooting Tracker, a website which labels any shooting or series of shootings a “mass shooting†if there are four or more injuries.
There does not have to be a death, and the injuries do not have to be the result of just one shooting incident but can be the result of numerous incidents added together. This means Senator Murphy counts a parking lot shootout–like the one WMC-TV reported between two groups of people in two separate cars in Memphis, Tennessee in October–as a “mass shooting.†And it also means that an Elkhart, Indiana, parking brawl involving over a 100 people–where some of those people pulled guns and opened fire–counts as a “mass shooting†too. The South Bend Tribune reported that “four individuals were found to be wounded†in that October 14 brawl.
Murphy also inflated the number of deaths by including the shooters themselves, an example of doubling down on the lie to continue The Narrative.
With all these gang related shootings, one might think we have a gang problem, not a gun problem.
Meanwhile, our semi-retired president plans to unilaterally enact some executive actions on gun control, which will pretty much do nothing except make Liberals Feel Good.
“President Obama failed to pass his anti-gun agenda though congress because the majority of Americans oppose more gun-control. Now he is doing what he always does when he doesn’t get his way, which is defy the will of the people and issue an executive order,” said NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker.
“This is nothing more than a political stunt to appease anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and will do nothing to increase public safety. The plain truth is that President Obama’s gun-control agenda will only make it harder for law-aiding citizens to exercise their constitutional right to self-protection. It will not stop criminals.”
If guns are the problem, why does Obama surround himself with large numbers of people carrying guns? Isn’t that dangerous?
[…] Murphy, a Democrat Statist is like most members of the Cult of Gun Control in that he lies, deliberately he loathes natural rights, such as the right of self-defense. It takes a truly miserable excuse for a human being to lie, again, DELIBERATELY, in order to strip t… […]
So Murphy’s use of different criteria from you constitutes a “lie”. Fascinating.
I happen to think he’s wrong in his interpretation, indeed, the idea that we were having a mass shooting every day made little sense.
On the other hand, it was explained who was included in his tally – the wounded, the shooter etc.
No way was this a lie.
I see your problem, now. You don’t know what “lie” means!
“If guns are the problem, why does Obama surround himself with large numbers of people carrying guns? Isn’t that dangerous?”
No, no no – THOSE people have been sprinkled with government fairy dust, so would never, ever hurt anybody.
Trust me.