Morning Jolt: We Need an Accurate National Conversation About Guns

Thank you, Washington Post, for stepping up to the plate and correcting a widely cited and shared piece of misinformation in the aftermath of the Florida shooting. There have not been 18 school shootings in the United States so far this year.

The figure originated with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit group, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg, that works to prevent gun violence and is most famous for its running tally of school shootings. . .

It is a horrifying statistic. And it is wrong.

Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings. Take, for example, what it counted as the year's first: On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal. Several hours later, he killed himself. The school, however, had been closed for seven months. There were no teachers. ...

February 16 2018

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We Need an Accurate National Conversation About Guns Jim Geraghty Thank you, Washington Post, for stepping up to the plate and correcting a widely cited and shared piece of misinformation in the aftermath of the Florida shooting. There have not been 18 school shootings in the United States so far this year. The figure originated with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit group, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg, that works to prevent gun violence and is most famous for its running tally of school shootings. . . It is a horrifying statistic. And it is wrong. Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings. Take, for example, what it counted as the year's first: On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal. Several hours later, he killed himself. The school, however, had been closed for seven months. There were no teachers. ... READ MORE Achieving a 355-Ship Navy 'Before This Decade Is Out' Jerry Hendrix In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation with a great goal: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on... Don't Name Mass Shooters Mona Charen Don't Name Mass Shooters ADVERTISEMENT What's Oozing Out of Campuses Is Polluting Society Michael Barone In a 1989 article in The New Republic, Andrew Sullivan made what he called "a (conservative) case for gay marriage." Today same-sex marriage is legal everywhere in America, supported by... American Nationalists Are Awfully Quiet about Russia Jonah Goldberg I'm confused. These days, "nationalism" is all the rage on the right. I put it in quotes because there are a lot of different ideas of what nationalism means. Some of it is just rah-rah... Real Conservatives and Frederick Douglass Kevin D. Williamson Professor David Blight of Yale complains that modern conservatives and libertarians have coopted Frederick Douglass. Professor Blight, the author of a new book on Douglass, surely knows a great... Have Democrats Overplayed Their Trump Hand? Rich Lowry It turns out that, with apologies to Nancy Pelosi, Republicans really did have to pass the tax bill so people could find out what's in it. The GOP has made gains on the generic congressional... ADVERTISEMENT The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West Peter Cozzens "The most lucid and reliable history of the Indian Wars in recent memory." — Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture LEARN MORE Westminster Dog Show Valparaiso Bike Race ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.