Thread: THE BIG LIE: Over 60% of “school shootings” never actually happened

THE BIG LIE: Over 60% of “school shootings” never actually happened

(Natural News) Is someone at the Department of Education deliberately trying to make the number of school shootings in the United States appear to be far worse than it really is? Or are agency staff members simply unable to conduct a simple survey, taking care to do the necessary checks to ensure that information collected is accurate? It … [Read More...]

Friday, September 07, 2018 by: Tracey Watson
Tags: campus insanity, child safety, fake news, false-flag, government data, government incompetence, guns, hoax, news fakes, political agenda, propaganda, school shootings, Second Amendment, statistics, Surveys

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(Natural News) Is someone at the Department of Education deliberately trying to make the number of school shootings in the United States appear to be far worse than it really is? Or are agency staff members simply unable to conduct a simple survey, taking care to do the necessary checks to ensure that information collected is accurate? It certainly looks like agency employees are either furthering their own political agenda or are downright incompetent.
Every two years, the Education Department conducts a survey entitled, “Civil Rights Data Collection Survey” (CRDCS), which involves collecting information from 96,000 U.S. public schools about a wide variety of issues. They claim to use this information to improve the quality of education in the country.
The most recent report, which includes results from the 2015/2016 survey, includes a big, fat whopper of a lie. The report claims that when asked, “Has there been at least one incident at your school that involved a shooting (regardless of whether anyone was hurt)?” nearly 240 schools replied in the affirmative. That’s a staggering 0.2 percent of all schools.
If this claim were true, it would indeed be cause for concern. But, is it true? As pointed out by Dan Zimmerman in an article for The Truth About Guns, even the most liberal, anti-gun surveys only put the number of schools which dealt with a shooting in that same year at 29. (Related: Did you fall for the “18 school shootings in 2018” fake news hoax? It’s a complete lie pushed by the dishonest left-wing media that hates America.)
So, what’s really going on here?

NPR sets out to fact check the report

The glaring difference between the number of shootings reported by other surveys and the number in the CRDCS survey prompted reporters from NPR to investigate further:
NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 of the 240 schools supposedly affected by school shootings, the schools or school districts were unable to confirm that any incident took place at all. While four schools did confirm some kind of incident, these did not meet the government’s criteria for being labeled a shooting.
NPR determined that very few administrators had any idea how shootings were recorded in their schools. This applied even to districts that had reported large numbers of shootings, including the Ventura Unified School District of Southern California, which reported 26 shootings in the one-year period. When contacted for further information, this was what NPR was told:
“I think someone pushed the wrong button,” said Jeff Davis, an assistant superintendent with the district. The outgoing superintendent, Joe Richards, “has been here for almost 30 years and he doesn’t remember any shooting,” he added.

Can these people not count?

Even though about a quarter of the schools did not respond to NPR’s attempts to get in touch, it is glaringly obvious that the figures in the CRDCS report were downright inaccurate. In the end, NPR was only able to confirm 11 verified shootings. (Related: It’s all theater — Florida high school shooting survivor caught on video rehearsing scripted lines, coached by camera man.)
It’s a downright disgrace that the people at the Department of Education apparently can’t count. Perhaps that explains why our schools are in the state they’re in.

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TheTruthAboutGuns.com
ED.gov^[PDF]
NPR.org


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Facebook censors NPR report exposing the fake science behind school shooting claims



(Natural News) The federal government is lying about the number of school shootings that occur annually in the United States, and Facebook doesn't want you to know about it. NPR was brave enough to challenge the official narrative, joining up with the non-profit group Child Trends to take a closer look at the alleged statistics on … [Read More...]

Sunday, September 09, 2018 by: Ethan Huff
Tags: antitrust, Censorship, deception, Department of Agriculture, Donald Trump, Facebook, First Amendment, free speech, Illegal, left cult, Lying, mark zuckerberg, misinformation, NPR, President Trump, propaganda, public utilities, public utility, Rolling Stone, school shootings, Silicon Valley, Social media, statistics, technocrats, zuckerberg

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(Natural News) The federal government is lying about the number of school shootings that occur annually in the United States, and Facebook doesn’t want you to know about it.
NPR was brave enough to challenge the official narrative, joining up with the non-profit group Child Trends to take a closer look at the alleged statistics on school-associated gun violence. What they found is that the U.S. Department of Education is greatly inflating the numbers, presumably to push the anti-gun agenda.
“More than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened,” NPR revealed in a bold article entitled, “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” But people who tried to share this NPR article on Facebook found that the Zuckerberg empire isn’t too happy with it.
Writing for DCClothesline.com, Jonathan Miltimore reported that a colleague of his, Sean Malone, tried to share the article with his several thousand Facebook followers and friends, only to have it flagged as “spam” and removed from the platform entirely.
“Facebook’s crackdown on fake news and ‘hate speech’ has been well chronicled,” writes Miltimore. “There are many reasons to be wary of such censorship: Who decides what’s true? Who decides what’s fake? Who decides what’s hateful?”
There’s no doubt that Facebook is actively censoring content that conflicts with government propaganda

While social media companies like Facebook have stated in court that they maintain the right to censor users at will, and for any reason, including “on the basis of religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or physical disability, or mental disability,” they all claim that they don’t.
But this latest incident suggests otherwise, showing that something is not quite right with the sharing of content on Facebook. There’s no valid reason why the NPR article should have been pulled, and yet it was.
It’s now obvious that Silicon Valley has become a ministry of propaganda for the deep state that even President Trump has begun hinting about the need for antitrust intervention. After all, many of these social media corporations were started, at least in part, with seed financing taken from taxpayers.
This means that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and even Google are public utilities at this point, which means they’re required by law to maintain neutrality. If they don’t, then there are legal grounds for the government to intervene on behalf of the public.
“I hear that they are holding hearings in Congress over the next couple of weeks and I think it’s a very serious problem because they are really trying to silence a very large part of this country and those people don’t want to be silenced,” President Trump recently stated.
“It’s not right. It’s not fair. It may not be legal. But, we’ll see. We just want fairness.”

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Censorship of social media is the beginning of fascist authoritarianism, says Rolling Stone writer

The good news is that not everyone is chugging the Kool-Aid. Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi penned a warning piece for the magazine that highlights the dangers of social media censorship and where it’s all going to lead.
“[P]oliticians are more interested in using than [in] curtailing the power of these companies,” Taibbi writes, holding back nothing in delineating the totalitarian implications of allowing communications companies to silence free speech.
“The platforms, for their part, will cave rather than be regulated. The endgame here couldn’t be clearer. This is how authoritarian marriages begin, and people should be very worried.”
It would be in everyone’s best interests for these multi-national tech corporations to be strictly regulated by independent regulatory bodies. These neutral entities would be tasked with ensuring that free speech is protected on all tech platforms at all times.


For more news on Silicon Valley’s unprecedented efforts to end free speech, visit Censorship.news.

Sources for this article include:

DCClothesline.com
NaturalNews.com

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