I saw that Lester Holt bit last night. I thought it could not be true. You are right; facts don’t matter to them. They’ll pull anything off any blog or wherever, and claim it is settled data.
Maybe wolfie needs a new copy of this since the one he has is getting pretty worn:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/748675/gun-violencemessaging-guide-pdf-1.pdf