Notice how they never 'fact check' the real serious stuff like Hillary Clinton claiming the 2016 election was stolen from her, Trump-Russia collusion hoax, Steele dossier, Hunter Biden's laptop, Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the list goes on and on... #FRAUDS
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Mass school shootings are incredibly rare. If you calculate them the right way, you wind up with 13 such events since 1966.
If the FBI, local police & community acted on 'red flags' that a subject posed a threat, such as warning signs or mental illness, you'd have even fewer.🧵
"Uvalde is a mass school shooting. This is defined... [as] an incident in which at least four people (some counters make it three) are shot and/or killed... Using their criteria, the number of mass school shootings in the U.S. since the year 1966 is 13." reason.com/2022/05/26/uva…
Over 40 years, the statistics show guns don't cause mass school shootings, but mental illness often does.
There are 393 million guns in the US. Clearly, they didn't 'cause' 13 school mass shootings in 56 years.
Most school mass shooters had prior mental health issues, however.
Who propped the door open?
Why did police watch Ramos go in the school?
How did he afford to buy his guns?
What happened in the 80 minutes?
Who issued the stand down order?
Americans better get good answers to these questions about Uvalde or there will be far more damning ones.
"Out of the 97 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the US ranks 64th in per capita frequency of these attacks and 65th in the murder rate."
One of the problems with the mass shootings debate is gun control advocates don't adjust for population.🧵
If you examine the frequency of mass public shootings from 2009-2015, the U.S. falls below many gun restrictive nations, such as France.
If you look at deaths per million, the United States is comparable with many other nations. It is even fewer than France, Serbia and Norway. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankin…
“We need to expand funding, recruiting and training for police departments nationwide. This is not a matter of money. This is a matter of will. If the United States has $40 billion to send to Ukraine, we should be able to do whatever it takes to keep our children safe at home."
“We spent trillions in Iraq, trillions in Afghanistan. We got nothing. Before we nation-build the rest of the world, we should be building safe schools for our own children in our own nation. Right?” Trump added.
Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist Laurie Garrett gave a refreshingly honest and clear-eyed assessment of the usefulness of masks in fighting coronavirus pandemics...
Unfortunately, her assessment, given as the Keynote Address at the National Academy of Medicine in December 2018, was given prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Garrett, a Council of Foreign Relations member, spilled the beans in a presentation...
... called "From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to 2009 H1N1 Pandemic to Now: Is the World Ready to Respond to the Next Outbreak?"
After her presentation, which periodically cast doubt on the historical utility of general public masking around the world, she fielded a question...
1. Masks don't work (statistically PROVEN) 2. Natural immunity is real (90%+ Americans had Covid & recovered) 3. Most vulnerable are vaccinated/protected (CDC Director said '95% have protection') 4. Ba.2 is an endemic 'Common Cold" variant 5. Masks damage children's mental health