PA Bill Number: HB2311
Title: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program.
Description: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program. ...
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Last Action Date: Sep 23, 2024
Bloomberg-backed gun group uses suicides, gang activity in 'school shooting' statistics :: 12/20/2016
An intellectual “audit” of the gun-control group Everytown For Gun Safety has revealed a definition of “school shooting” that includes everything from negligent discharges to suicide.
The Townhall Media-affiliated website Bearing Arms recently researched over 200 “school shootings” cited by Everytown, which is largely funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Writer Bob Owens decided to undergo the project after seeing a Dec. 15 Huffington Post article that took the numbers at face value.
“We decided that it was time to take a hard look at the claimed school shootings,” Mr. Owen wrote Dec. 16. “As gun control groups are always using the term ‘commonsense,’ we’ll use the following definition of school shooting: a school shooting is an on-campus attack with firearms against the faculty, staff, or students that occurs on a school campus during school hours or during school functions. We’ll also include attacks on college students in and near their on-campus dorms.”
Bearing Arms then went through every school shooting tallied by Everytown, linked to local news reports and provided a count of “lies” for readers to consider.
Some of the website’s finding include:
- Everytown qualified gang activity near but not on a school campus in Chicago as a school shooting.
- Negligently discharged weapons during the cleaning process — where no one was hurt — were considered school shootings.
- The negligent discharge by a school janitor who found a gun on campus was deemed a school shooting.
- A man followed his estranged wife into a school parking lot and killed her, but Everytown listed it as a school shooting.
- A jogger was shot in the leg while “on the edge” of a college campus. He too was listed as a school shooting.
The website concluded that of 203 incidents since 2013 chronicled by Everytown, “only 44 meet the common perception of a school shooting, where someone came to a school campus to shoot faculty, staff, or students.”
“This is the first attempt we know of to audit all 203 school shootings claimed by Bloomberg’s minions, and we find them to be … lacking,” Mr. Owens wrote. “Unlike Everytown, I’ve provided a link to news stories for each and every one of these alleged school shootings, so you can tailor your own definitions, and draw your own conclusions. Unlike Everytown, I’m willing to put my cards on the table, and enjoy a spirited and honest debate.”
The Bloomberg-funded group has revised its shooting total to 207 as of Tuesday. The organization says its mission is to build “a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/20/bloomberg-backed-gun-group-uses-suicides-gang-acti/
