CNN Decides 80% of Reported School Shootings Don't Count

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/13/1306613/-CNN-Decides-80-of-Reported-School-Shootings-Don-t-Count?detail=email

In a shameful and mind-numbingly insensitive move, CNN has decided that of the 74 school shootings which have occurred in the last 18 months, 59 incidents in which 25 people were killed and 40 were injured simply do not count.

This patently ridiculous conclusion can be found in an article at CNN entitled, "A closer look: How many Newtown-like school shootings since Sandy Hook?" It is within this article thatthe following rationale is given as to why we should ignore most of the incidents reported by gun control advocacy groups:

CNN determined that 15 of the incidents [gun advocacy group] Everytown included were situations similar to the violence in Newtown or Oregon -- a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school. That works out to about one such shooting every five weeks, a startling figure in its own right.

Some of the other incidents on Everytown's list included personal arguments, accidents and alleged gang activities and drug deals.

Let us stop right here. CNN has just discounted 59 school shootings in which there were active shooters inside or near a school because, well, why exactly? Because they didn't look like Newtown? Because they involved gang activity, or personal arguments, or so-called accidents? Incidents in which 25 people were killed?

This is not only absurd, it's infuriating, particularly when it becomes clear that CNN seems to have discounted incidents the network originally covered as school shootings because of right-wing criticism from the likes of Charles C. Johnson and NewsBusters.

There is a growing number of people enraged by CNN's interpretive decision, none more so than a mother whose son was slain in one of those 59 incidents who just published an open letter to CNN entitled, "To CNN, Murders Like My Son's Don't Count." Annette Holt, who is a Chicago Fire Department Battalion Chief, writes:

My son Blair was an honors student. He was the most important thing in my life. And in 2007 a gang member killed him -- and injured four others -- on his way home from school on a public bus with many of his classmates. Blair died trying to save another girl's life. He was just another innocent bystander whose life was cut short because a gun was in the wrong hands.

But to CNN and other media outlets, murders like my son's don't count. You see, they looked at the list of 74 school shootings and picked and chose the 15 they thought were worthy of mentioning. Their reasoning? Because our innocent sons and daughters are killed by gang members, they don't deserve a spot on the list.

Whenever a gun is fired at school, parents are rightfully terrified. Students are rightfully terrified. Try explaining to a shocked and devastated community that the school shooting it's mourning is disqualified because the gun was fired as the result of a "personal argument."

these types of shootings were once all we saw gang related Black on Black rarely any of the White on White, is that do too to right wing criticism AKA NRA and it's whores?  when you see continuous deaths do to guns all through out history the people came together and made laws restrictions even in Dodge City Wyatt Earp and other's made people check their guns upon entering the city.  now we are seeing the right wing trying to do just the opposite.

"welcome bring your guns with you, need bullets or gun oil" or a shiny new holster or a rifle belt we'll fix you right up".  instead of recognizing it's leading to untold amount of deaths they promote the intentional allowance of  the instruments that bring about those deaths, they intend to kill us all with antiquated misinterpreted laws, the old west band guns in city the new west supports them.

this is a case of the older they get the dumber they are once they die off won't be enough older persons left if gun laws are not implemented. recognize they are ignoring history and as predicted it's repeating it'self.