"Since January, we've had 397 gun massacres in America, defined as a slaying of 4 people or more," Raskin said. "The American people want to end this reign of terror but what do our friends do on the other side?"
Raskin's statement did not match statistics from any known database of shootings. The number of shootings that matched his criteria was only 40 for 2017 – 357 less shootings than he claimed.
WFB cites the openly pro-gun control Mass Shooting Tracker's statistics, which show that from Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 4, 2017 there were 40 shootings in which 4 or more people were killed.
"The Mass Shooting Tracker's definition of mass shooting, where 4 or more people are injured but not necessarily killed in the shooting, is closer to Rep. Raskin's estimate," WFB notes. The media and gun control advocates have pushed for a new definition of what qualifies as a mass shooting by dropping the number of causalities required in a shooting for it to qualify in order to inflate the numbers, a tactic Mass Shooting Tracker takes despite contradicting the FBI's official definition.
FAKE NEWS: Democrat Congressman Spreads Big Lie About Gun Violence On House Floor
if at first you don't succeed, change the definition
Raskin's statement did not match statistics from any known database of shootings. The number of shootings that matched his criteria was only 40 for 2017 – 357 less shootings than he claimed.
WFB cites the openly pro-gun control Mass Shooting Tracker's statistics, which show that from Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 4, 2017 there were 40 shootings in which 4 or more people were killed.
"The Mass Shooting Tracker's definition of mass shooting, where 4 or more people are injured but not necessarily killed in the shooting, is closer to Rep. Raskin's estimate," WFB notes. The media and gun control advocates have pushed for a new definition of what qualifies as a mass shooting by dropping the number of causalities required in a shooting for it to qualify in order to inflate the numbers, a tactic Mass Shooting Tracker takes despite contradicting the FBI's official definition.
FAKE NEWS: Democrat Congressman Spreads Big Lie About Gun Violence On House Floor
if at first you don't succeed, change the definition