CBS Called Out After Leftist Lies About Mass Shootings – #2A
CBS News crushed on social media for absurd claim about mass shootings
CBS News crushed on social media for absurd claim about mass shootings
A CBS News article promulgated an irrational claim about mass shootings in the U.S. and was immediately mocked and ridiculed by those with at least a modicum of elementary math training.
The article from Sarah Horbacewicz repeated a claim that one out of every 15 adult Americans had been at a mass shooting but then offered zero critical analysis of that statistic. A University of Colorado study arrived at the claim by defining a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people had been shot.
The rest of the article was an appeal to the emotions that covered recent developments in the 2021 mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.
The claim received far more scrutiny from online critics of the media and defenders of the Second Amendment.
“Four seconds of critical thinking and math tell me it is not at all possible that 17.3 million adults in the U.S. have witnessed a mass shooting,” responded…
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