(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A comprehensive data analysis of the Gun Violence Archive showed that 97% of “mass shootings” in the first half of 2023 were not “active shooter” situations under the law.
Democrats’ continued push for stricter gun regulations would do nothing to address the majority of shootings with more than four victims, according to the Daily Caller.
The new laws only adressed 38 of the 1,768 people killed or injured in shootings with more than four victims. The remainder of the casualties did not meet the requirement of premeditated or ideologically charged active shooter scenarios.
Between January 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023, there were 335 mass shootings with 1,768 fatalities. Investigators found that “mass shooters” were likely mass murderers targeting innocent people—often with ideological motivations and possibly a history of mental illness—or at the center of a random criminal event.
The latter usually took place in a bar or a club, late in the evening and were often gang related.
“I think we’ve seen also an increase in gun violence gun deaths over the past three years, sort of homicide, and essentially mass shootings as GVA defines it, largely because there is less social control being exercised formally and informally, over the small subset of the population,” said Charles Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
The Pew Research Center, CNN, The New York Times, the National Institute of Health and several other mainstream government and news outlets used data from the GVA in their reporting—indicating the mass dissemination of misinformation.
The media also attempted to paint all of the 335 shootings as radically conservative, Nazi-adjacent extremists targeting innocent people. According to the report, only four shootings possibly fit this scenario.
The remaining 97% of shootings were results of public disagreements outside of bars and clubs.
“The term ‘mass shooting’ has been grossly manipulated by the media and politicians to distract from the real crisis: the Biden Crime Wave,” said National Rifle Association spokesman Billy McLaughlin. “This national crisis is caused by coddling criminals and not prosecuting and punishing them.”
In March, President Joe Biden signed an executive order winding bureaucratic red tape around American’s right to bear arms—including increased background checks and bans on particular rifles.
