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Obama Can't Stop Lying About Guns, As He Touts The Phony '18 School Shootings' Stat
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 3/8/2017 | Staff

Posted on 03/09/2018 4:44:27 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

Gun Control: During a keynote speech in Washington, D.C., Barack Obama started talking about guns, and repeated the completely bogus claim that Parkland, Fla., was the 18th school shooting this year. It's hardly the first time Obama has peddled blatant falsehoods to push gun control.

"If you ask me the thing that broke my heart, particularly when now I see there have been, and I've gotta update this," Obama said, "18 shootings in schools this year ... this year!" The Washington Examiner first noticed his quote.

This is wrong every which way.

IBD was one of the first news outlets to explain that the "18 school shootings" claim — which was being parroted by every major press outlet after the Parkland shooting — was bogus. The number was made up by a gun control advocacy site, which arrived at 18 only by including such things as a suicide in the parking lot of a school that had been closed for months, stray bullets fired near a college campus, a police officer's weapon going off accidentally, after-hours fights in school parking lots, etc.

Not only did Obama repeat this phony statistic, but he didn't even have the gun control group's updated number. By the time Obama gave his speech, Everytown for Gun Safety listed 27 "school shootings" for this year.

The new entries, not surprisingly, are just as bogus as the previous ones, including, for example, a false report of a gun being fired at a school.

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1 posted on 03/09/2018 4:44:28 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

Exresident Obama holds in his hand a list of 18... no 16... no 21 no... shootings orchestrated by the NRA < /sarc >


2 posted on 03/09/2018 4:54:00 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I wonder if Hussein Obama even tells the truth when he is back in KENYA?


3 posted on 03/09/2018 4:54:53 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: IBD editorial writer
Barack Obama?

The college professor?

The smartest president ever?

The guy who visited 57 states?

The guy who thinks the US built an intercontinental railroad?

Is that the guy?


4 posted on 03/09/2018 4:57:18 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: IBD editorial writer
0bama hates guns but yet he said in a speech that if they bring a knife we'll bring a gun. Oh and:

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5 posted on 03/09/2018 5:10:29 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I have long said that anytime ObamaIdiot’s lips are moving, he is lying.....


6 posted on 03/09/2018 5:13:08 AM PST by cranked
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To: SkyDancer

Is “Nappy Hair” still out there making trouble? I thought he went to some foreign country to while away his remaining years, ON OUR MONEY.


7 posted on 03/09/2018 5:13:50 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

Please judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. Oh, you did! Nevermind.


8 posted on 03/09/2018 5:17:41 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: SkyDancer
hussein44 is anti-gun...except when he isn't...


9 posted on 03/09/2018 5:24:15 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Iron Munro

Obama also said HI is in Asia. Of course, being born there, he knows more about its actual location than the rest of us.

Jk.


10 posted on 03/09/2018 5:43:10 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: IBD editorial writer

[Obama Can’t Stop Lying...]

Could have ended the headline right there and still be 100% truth.


11 posted on 03/09/2018 5:54:56 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: IBD editorial writer

It broke my heart when all of elected and appointed let this ineligible usurper illegally occupy the Oval Office.

Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
One is only NTAURALLY an American when one cannot be anything else.
Multiple nationalities at birth is not NATURALLY an American.


12 posted on 03/09/2018 7:56:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Fantasywriter
Obama also said HI is in Asia.

Dopey Opie has made so many incorrect and stupid statements that there's not enough room or bandwidth in a single post to list more than a few of his biggies.

To do it justice he needs his own book of quotations.


13 posted on 03/09/2018 1:14:53 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

Bol!

+1


14 posted on 03/09/2018 1:21:32 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: 2harddrive

Just tell the anti-gunners that Bumpfire guns are SINGLE SHOT rifles. One trigger pull = one shot!


15 posted on 03/11/2018 10:40:31 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Yeah, you’re right about that...


16 posted on 03/14/2018 4:33:29 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Yeah, you’re right about that...


17 posted on 03/14/2018 4:33:58 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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