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.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Exresident Obama holds in his hand a list of 18... no 16... no 21 no... shootings orchestrated by the NRA < /sarc >
I wonder if Hussein Obama even tells the truth when he is back in KENYA?
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?
I have long said that anytime ObamaIdiot’s lips are moving, he is lying.....
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.
Please judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. Oh, you did! Nevermind.
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.
[Obama Can’t Stop Lying...]
Could have ended the headline right there and still be 100% truth.
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.
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.
Bol!
+1
Just tell the anti-gunners that Bumpfire guns are SINGLE SHOT rifles. One trigger pull = one shot!
Yeah, you’re right about that...
Yeah, you’re right about that...
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