Everytown's '100 School Shootings' List Includes Non-School, Non-Existent, and Accidental Shootings

Everytown's '100 School Shootings' List Includes Non-School, Non-Existent, and Accidental Shootings

by AWR Hawkins 13 Dec 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/13/Everytown-s-100-School-Shootings-Include-Non-School-Shootings-Shootings-That-Didn-t-Happen

On December 9, Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety released a study claiming "100 school shootings" had occurred since the heinous Sandy Hook attack on December 14, 2012. The problem is their list contains non-school shootings, shootings that did not occur, and accidental discharges of firearms that were legally possessed on campus.

Yet outlets like the Huffington Post and gun control proponents like Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, quickly bought the list--hook, line, and sinker. Gross even took part in a Huffington Post panel, where Rick Camilleri used the words "massacre" and "mass shooting" to set the stage for discussing the "recent analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety, [which shows] there have been almost 100 school shootings since Newtown and absolutely no major change in gun policy."

Such an introduction makes it easy to expect to turn to Everytown's "100 School Shootings" and find 100 mass shootings or 100 massacres. The careful reader, however, will find an incident the Annapolis Patch described as occurring at a "non-school related private function," on a house boat "at St. John's College" in Maryland. In this incident, a bullet grazed someone, who was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, then released.

The careful reader will also find a Tennessee State University (TSU) shooting, which no one is sure even took place. Everytown lists it as occurring on October 13, 2014. But media reports from that day indicate police simply investigated a report of "shots fired," and two weeks later, on October 27, WSMV reported that police still had not ascertained whether shots had actually been fired. 

Moreover, Breitbart News called TSU police on December 12 and spoke with the school's media directors; no one could recall a shooting. 

Nonetheless, it made Everytown's "100 School Shootings" list.

Everytown also includes the accidental discharge of a firearm legally possessed on a campus as a school shooting. In one of the most egregious stretching-of-facts scenarios to date, Everytown claims an Idaho State University instructor who accidentally shot himself in the foot with his concealed carry firearm is an example of another "school shooting." 

The Idaho State Journal thought the incident was funny, and the school president said he felt sorry for the instructor, who w probably "embarrassed."

But Rick Camilleri used the words "massacre" and "mass shooting," and Gross showed up in a tie like he was ready to talk about serious research and/or an investigation. All the while, the list of "100 School Shootings" they discussed contains non-school shootings, non-existent shootings, and accidental discharges of legal firearms.

Sandy Hook

2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings that 28 killed, including gunman.

Note: Newtown (CT) was the location of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Martin Feinberg is a Newtown (CT) resident, and Stephen A. Feinberg’s father.

Stephen A. Feinberg is Martin Feinberg’s son, the CEO for Cerberus Capital Management L.P. and a trustee at the Public Theater.

Cerberus Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.

Rumor Control: The Truth About Cerberus/Freedom Group

Posted on July 20, 2012

http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2012/7/rumor-control.aspx?s=Cerberus+Capital&st=&ps

An old rumor has once again resurfaced alleging that Cerberus--the private equity firm that owns Freedom group, a holding company that in turn owns a number of firearms manufacturers, including Remington, Marlin, Bushmaster, and DPMS--is in some way tied to George Soros.

Michael P.C. Carns is a director at the Freedom Group, and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Barry R. McCaffrey was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a director at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the Drug Policy Alliance, and the American Constitution Society.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor at the Harlem Children's Zone.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.      

Michael R. Bloomberg was a benefactor at the Harlem Children's Zone, and is the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.

Kenneth B. Lerer is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, was a co-founder & chairman for the Huffington Post, and the chairman for the Public Theater.

Stephen A. Feinberg is a trustee at the Public Theater, the CEO for Cerberus Capital Management L.P., and Martin Feinberg’s son.

Faith Elizabeth Gay is a trustee at the Public Theater, a director at the American Constitution Society, and was an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP.

Mario M. Cuomo is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was a co-chairman for a Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Eric H. Holder Jr. was a board member at the American Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.

Drug Enforcement Administration is a member agency for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Lois Haight Herrington was an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and the chairman & executive director for the White House Conference for a Drug Free America.

Barack Obama is the president of the Barack Obama administration, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).