Mother Jones: Left Claims ‘355 Mass Shootings’ In 2015, Actual Number is 4

[ABX]

A moment of clarity or trying to lessen the number of incidents under "The One"?

On December 3, Mother Jones editor Mark Follman addressed the left’s exaggerated claims of “355 mass shootings” this year and pointed out the actual number is about four.

Follman is addressing leftist media pundits, gun control groups, and actresses like Rose McGowan, who claim there have actually been 355 mass shootings in American in 2015 alone. On December 2 McGowan tweeted that the San Bernardino attack was the 355th this year. She wrote, “355 shootings this year. Well done you f**king idiots.”

But Follman shows that McGowan and others making that claim are off by about 351 shootings.

Writing The New York Times, Follman says:

    At Mother Jones, where I work as an editor, we have complied an in-depth open-source database covering more than three decades of public mass shootings. By our measure, there have been four “mass shootings” this year, including the one in San Bernardino, and at least 73 such attacks since 1982.

Note–The left claims 355 mass shootings this year along while Mother Jones’ research shows only 73 mass shootings since 1982. How can this be?...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/04/mother-jones-left-claims-355-mass-shootings-2015-actual-number-4/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

[GourmetDan]

 
Well... to their credit... they must have toted up all the black-boyz shoot-em-ups in Chicago for a couple of weekends...

[raml]

I figure that they included every shooting of more than one person at a time in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, New York and across the nation.  When I heard that yesterday I thought man they are really making up stories and since they are lying they are making them whoppers since so many people watching the news these past few days are about as ignorant as they come so they figure they won't question what they are spouting.

[andy58-in-nh]

They are only off by 99.988%. That's almost good enough for a job making economic policy in the Obama Administration.

[Carling]

They are only off by 99.988%. That's almost good enough for a job making economic policy in the Obama Administration.

ZING!!