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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1955005" data-attributes="member: 45230"><p>Shortly after news broke of a shooting in San Bernardino (which we <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/12/05/mother-jones-editor-that-355-mass-shootings-statistic-is-really-wrong-n2089407" target="_blank">now know</a> was a terrorist attack), Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit were abuzz that the events of December 2, 2015 were the "355th mass shooting" of 2015. Obviously, this was a concerning statistic--if it were actually true.</p><p></p><p>It turns out it <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/media-push-activists-count-of-mass-shootings/" target="_blank">wasn't</a>, and even figures on the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html" target="_blank">left</a> agree. There's been nowhere near 355 mass shootings in 2015, and according to Mother Jones editor Mark Folman, there have been exactly four.</p><p></p><p>The statistics now being highlighted in the news come primarily from<a href="http://shootingtracker.com/" target="_blank">shootingtracker.com</a>, a website built by members of a Reddit forum supporting gun control called GunsAreCool. That site aggregates news stories about shooting incidents — of any kind — in which four or more people are reported to have been either injured or killed.</p><p></p><p>It’s not clear why the Redditors use this much broader criteria. The founder of the “shooting tracker” project, who currently goes by the handle “Billy Speed,” told me it was his choice: “Three years ago I decided, all by myself, to change the United States’ definition of mass shooting.” It’s also not clear how many of those stories — many of them from local outlets, including scant detail — are accurate.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/12/05/mother-jones-editor-that-355-mass-shootings-statistic-is-really-wrong-n2089407" target="_blank">http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/12/05/mother-jones-editor-that-355-mass-shootings-statistic-is-really-wrong-n2089407</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>So a guy on Reddit makes up his own unofficial definition that nobody else agrees with but anti gun groups mindlessly repeat. He even included pellet guns in his count of "mass shootings".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1955005, member: 45230"] Shortly after news broke of a shooting in San Bernardino (which we [URL='http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/12/05/mother-jones-editor-that-355-mass-shootings-statistic-is-really-wrong-n2089407']now know[/URL] was a terrorist attack), Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit were abuzz that the events of December 2, 2015 were the "355th mass shooting" of 2015. Obviously, this was a concerning statistic--if it were actually true. It turns out it [URL='http://freebeacon.com/issues/media-push-activists-count-of-mass-shootings/']wasn't[/URL], and even figures on the [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html']left[/URL] agree. There's been nowhere near 355 mass shootings in 2015, and according to Mother Jones editor Mark Folman, there have been exactly four. The statistics now being highlighted in the news come primarily from[URL='http://shootingtracker.com/']shootingtracker.com[/URL], a website built by members of a Reddit forum supporting gun control called GunsAreCool. That site aggregates news stories about shooting incidents — of any kind — in which four or more people are reported to have been either injured or killed. It’s not clear why the Redditors use this much broader criteria. The founder of the “shooting tracker” project, who currently goes by the handle “Billy Speed,” told me it was his choice: “Three years ago I decided, all by myself, to change the United States’ definition of mass shooting.” It’s also not clear how many of those stories — many of them from local outlets, including scant detail — are accurate. [URL]http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/12/05/mother-jones-editor-that-355-mass-shootings-statistic-is-really-wrong-n2089407[/URL] So a guy on Reddit makes up his own unofficial definition that nobody else agrees with but anti gun groups mindlessly repeat. He even included pellet guns in his count of "mass shootings". [/QUOTE]
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