While protecting Wednesday’s shootings in Lewiston, Maine, CNN pointed to deceptive knowledge and claimed there have been 525 “mass shootings” in 2023.
CNN reported the shootings in Maine “added to a list of 565 reported across the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.”
Breitbart News has beforehand defined that the figures from the Gun Violence Archive are reached, partially, by altering the definition of a “mass shooting,” thereby permitting drive-by incidents, double or triple homicides, gang violence, and different such crimes to be counted as “mass shootings.”
The Gun Violence Archive counts incidents wherein there are “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident,” as “mass shootings.”
On April 15, 2021, the Rand Corporation observed the usual for “mass shootings” was derived from the FBI’s Eighties definition of a “mass murderer” as a person who “kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself).” Therefore, 4 or extra deaths in a single incident by a single gunman was the working definition of a “mass shooting.”
In this picture taken from video launched by the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office, a gunman factors a gun whereas getting into Sparetime Recreation in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office by way of AP)
But the Gun Violence Archive’s method departs from what has been customary, utilizing a a lot decrease threshold for qualifying incidents as “mass shootings,” thereby permitting a better variety of such incidents to be reported.
Here is an instance: An October 28, 2022, incident the GVA lists as a “mass shooting” occurred at a funeral for a 20-year-old Pittsburgh man. There had been no fatalities within the incident and police should not sure what number of gunman opened fireplace. Moreover, when police commander Richard Ford was requested if the violence was gang associated he responded, “Obviously we believe there’s a dispute going on and we’re looking into that.”
Although there have been no fatalities, and who is aware of what number of shooters, and the incident occurred in a location the place police assume a gang dispute is ongoing, the Gun Violence Archive counted it as a “mass shooting.”
While protecting the shootings in Maine, CNN praised the Gun Violence Archive, claiming, “For all its data background, the Gun Violence Archive’s work is, at its heart, basic journalism.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the author/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly publication targeted on all issues Second Amendment, additionally for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow on the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker on the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a give attention to the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can signal as much as get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him immediately at awrhawkins@breitbart.com
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