CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: One Mass Shooting Every Day ‘Almost
Literally True’
On August 2 CNN’s Fareed Zakaria tried to stir Congressional action
on gun control by citing a study which claims 207 mass shootings in the first
207 days of 2015. Zakaria said the claim of one mass shooting every day is
“almost literally true.”
Moreover, Zakaria followed the same path taken by President
Obama and suggested guns pose a greater threat than terrorism. Obama made this
suggestion during a BBC interview
nearly two weeks ago.
[Americans’] attitude seems to be one of fatalism–another
day, another mass shooting, which is almost literally true. The website
shootingtracker.com documents that in the first 207 days of 2015 America had
207 mass shootings. After one of these takes place now, everyone goes through a
ritual of shock and horror, and then moves on, aware that nothing will change.
Interestingly enough, something that has changed is the way
the left defines a mass shooting. Amid the gun control push that has been
ubiquitous over the past three years, the number of deaths required for a
shooting to be labeled a mass shooting has settled at two.
If two people are killed, it’s a mass shooting. This
basically means we have murder–one dead–and mass shootings–more than one dead.
But the site Zakaria cites–Shooting Tracker–gives another
definition that does not even require a death in order to consider a shooting a
mass shooting. Instead, Shooting Tracker says,
“A mass shooting is when four or more people are shot in an event, or related
series of events, likely without a cooling off period.”
Thus, the first mass shooting listed in their 207 mass
shootings for 2015 is one in which five people were injured, but no one was
killed. Their 10th, 13th, 15th, 19th, 25th, and 31st mass shootings are the
same–injuries only–and the list continues. Moreover, there are a number of
aggregate factors that get brushed over–like the fact that their February 1
mass shooting which injured six was carried out by a parolee whom Syracuse.com reports
had been in prison on gun charges and was on supervised release at the time of
his crime. Such a man would be barred from gun possession, but that degree of
gun control–100 percent gun control–did not hinder him.
So if you accept the new definition for a mass shooting and
Zakaria’s push for more gun control–although criminals on the mass shooting
list ignore gun control–then you may be ready to accept the claim that one mass
shooting a day is “almost literally true.”
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria
GPS is a CNN program.
Note: Fareed Zakaria is
the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, a
director at the New America Foundation,
and an advisory council member for the Acumen
Fund.
Jonathan
Soros is a director at the New
America Foundation, George Soros’s
son, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, is Jonathan
Soros & Andrea Soros’s
father, and a friend of Michael Douglas.
Andrea Soros is George Soros’s daughter, and a director
at the Acumen Fund.
Michael
Douglas is a friend of George Soros,
and a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the president
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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