• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes please use the GVA as a source of truth…NPR and Mother Jones both called out that site as bullshit.

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      1 year ago

      It’s just a list of all shootings in the USA, that’s data without analysis.

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        1 year ago

        No it is not, its not been called out multiple times for how error prone it is. People who use it as factual loose all credibility with anyone who knows anything about gun violence.

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          1 year ago

          Funny how I search for “gun violence archive unreliable” and I don’t come up with anything… Except for the “Second amendment foundation”… Have you thought that maybe it’s the people calling them out that are unreliable and that have an agenda that GVA goes against? 🤔

          https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/gun-violence-archive/

          They provide their methodology and a source for all shootings. Just because Jo nobody calls them out doesn’t make them unreliable.

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              1 year ago

              Mother Jones only mention of GVA:

              With multiple-victim shootings more broadly, sites like Gun Violence Archive and Mass Shooting Tracker offer aggregation of news reports and data that could potentially be useful for further in-depth analysis.

              Wow… that’s what I call “calling out bullshit”!

              No mention at all in the other article.

              Good job 👍

              Playing with the definition of what is and isn’t a mass shooting and only considering people that died in the victims count doesn’t help your argument buddy.

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                1 year ago

                Way to miss the point of the article.

                Playing with the definition is how you get media numbers to be “we had 600 mass shootings in 3 weeks” headlines. It’s disinformation designed for clicks, and you are the type that feeds into it… clearly

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                  1 year ago

                  Not counting people unless they died diminishes the issue. Someone ending up paralysed from the waist down or ending up in a coma isn’t a victim? Sure bud, anything to defend gun owners!