PolitiFact - Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld falsely claims concealed carry permit holders never committed mass shooting

  • 📰 PolitiFact
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 40 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 19%
  • Publisher: 71%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld falsely claimed nobody with a concealed carry permit had ever committed a mass shooting. There have been several such cases, including the 2018 mass shooting that left 11 dead at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

a permit to carry a firearm in public. Jaclyn Schildkraut, who researches mass shootings as an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Oswego, said there is no national registry of concealed carry permits across those states."Absolutely, wholly inaccurate," added Kristen Rand, government affairs director for the nonprofit Violence Policy Center, which tracks such cases as part of its focus on reducing gun violence.

Citing news reports that indicate when a mass shooter had a concealed carry permit — including articles from Fox News’s own website — the Violence Policy CenterFeatured Fact-check“Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol" before Jan. 6, 2021, but was"rejected" by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.The list includes the accused shooter who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018.

The Violence Policy Center defines a mass shooting as a killing of three or more people; that’s in line with the definition used under a 2013 federal mandate to investigate such attacks following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. There is no legal definition of a mass shooting, PolitiFact

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

What was even the logic there? If we give CC permits to everyone, then no mass shootings?

I'm just so tired of the lies.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 17. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.