{"id":4765,"date":"2018-02-16T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/fake-news-18-school-shootings-since-january-1-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:11:51","slug":"fake-news-18-school-shootings-since-january-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/fake-news-18-school-shootings-since-january-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News: 18 School Shootings Since January 1, 2018. The Importance of Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question of how many school shootings have occurred in a given place over a given period of time is an empirical question. But to answer the empirical question, one must first have answered a logically prior question, which is non-empirical. This is the conceptual question as to the definition of 'school shooting.' <\/span><\/p>\n

What counts as a school shooting? The supervised, safe, Saturday morning on-campus firing of BB guns at targets? The 'discharge' of a pea shooter? The shotgunning of ducks in  a pond on a school's grounds?  The killing of a stray deer with bow and arrow?<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose some punk fires a .223 round at a window of a school in the middle of the night when no one is there from an off-campus position. That could be called a school shooting too. A physical part of the school was shot at.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or let us say that a distraught person commits suicide by shooting himself while seated in a car parked in a lot of what was formerly<\/em> a school. This is an a actual case that was cited as a 'school shooting'! See linked article infra<\/em>. Does this count as a school shooting? Not to someone who is intellectually honest.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, what most people mean by a school shooting is an attempted mass shooting in a school or on the premises of a school by one or more assailants armed with deadly weapons, a shooting of students or teachers or administrative personnel that causes death or injury.<\/span><\/p>\n

That definition no doubt needs tweaking, but if we adopt something like it, then, since January 1st we have in these United States more like three, count 'em, three<\/em> school shootings. Three too many<\/em>, but even a liberal gun-grabber knows that 3 < 18. <\/span><\/p>\n

Across the board, lying leftists bandy about terms without explicit definitions, or with over-broad definitions. They do this willfully to further their destructive agendas. If you are a decent human being you will do your bit to oppose them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now go read the Politifact article<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question of how many school shootings have occurred in a given place over a given period of time is an empirical question. But to answer the empirical question, one must first have answered a logically prior question, which is non-empirical. This is the conceptual question as to the definition of 'school shooting.'  What counts … Continue reading “Fake News: 18 School Shootings Since January 1, 2018. The Importance of Definition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,6,113,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-language-matters","category-logica-utens","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}