Jimmy Kimmel Gets Taken to the Woodshed on Twitter, Here's The Reason Why
Almost instantaneously after the shooting at Santa Fe High School left 10 people dead, celebrities and anti-gun activists started calling for strict gun control measures, a strategy that only hurts law abiding citizens and does little to prevent these horrific incidents.
One of the leading voices in the call to destroy the Second Amendment is late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel who jumped on Twitter and started demanding gun control, however, he made a huge mistake by relying on information and statistics from the world’s worst news organization: CNN.
CNN is notorious for never allowing a set of facts to get in the way of its agenda, something that should make the usage of information from the network suspect, and in Kimmel’s case, it’s just plain wrong.
“The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined,” Kimmel tweeted, citing a CNN report.
The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined @CNN https://t.co/uSUSUZNG4T
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 21, 2018
Here are a few of PolitiFacts’ fact-checks on some of the inflated numbers pushed by CNN and gun control groups like Everytown for Gun Safety:
Mostly False: 18 U.S. school shootings so far in 2018 and 18 in rest of the world over past 20 years
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A number of followers on Twitter made sure to take a few moments of time to point out to Kimmel that his statistics have already been proven wrong:
Every single fact-check has proven these numbers to be completely false. This goes beyond activism, it's pure dishonesty.
You're using explicitly different methodologies for other countries and the U.S.
Even Politifact has repeatedly denounced the U.S. stat as false. https://t.co/UGkMuOUXng
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 21, 2018
Some examples:https://t.co/kKkwMJhVd7https://t.co/WVziya29mjhttps://t.co/QZIRP8m2gP
It's beyond insane that a news network keeps promoting this level of dishonesty on this topic.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 21, 2018
Here is a dissection of how CNN is coming up with their numbers for 2018: https://t.co/v2ihEsUnzp
Of course there is 0 chance they even could use the same methodology for other countries.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 21, 2018
This isn't just unhelpful, it's intentionally dishonest.
This list includes a "shooting" with a BB gun, an accidental discharge during a safety class, a shooting at an apartment building that happens to be on campus, at least 3 other shootings were at dorms etc. etc. https://t.co/s9l63RbZaR
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 18, 2018
To be clear, CNN considers this to be a school shooting. One student shot another student with a BB gun which resulted in some bruising. https://t.co/3rQ31ZjXfP
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) May 21, 2018
CNN also considers this accidental shooting by a reserve officer for the Sand City Police Department at Seaside High School which resulted in one superficial injury to be a school shooting. https://t.co/pcPpiAlcOg
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) May 21, 2018
CNN counts this murder, in which one adult motivated by a dispute over a rap video murdered another adult, as a school shooting because it happened in a school parking lot. https://t.co/SCSkR3u7DW
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) May 21, 2018
As you can see, CNN has been padding their numbers for quite some time, hoping that by doing so it will help them push an agenda on the American people with the goal in mind of convincing them to protest against their own constitutional rights.
The ultimate goal with such a strategy is to convince people that things are super bad and the only way to stop the situation is by placing severe limitations on the Second Amendment, and ultimately, over time, getting rid of it.
Kimmel is serving as an ignorant mouthpiece for the strategy, most likely not even aware that’s what’s happening. This is why it’s critical to do your own research and to look on both sides of an issue before making up your mind.
You cannot count on accurate information from celebrities and actors.
Source: The Daily Wire
