How Many Mass Shootings (So Far) in 2023?
A popular January 2023 post to Reddit’s r/dankmemes purportedly placed the number of mass shootings in the US to date as 39.
A popular January 2023 post to Reddit’s r/dankmemes purportedly placed the number of mass shootings in the US to date as 39.
A popular meme claimed that police in Japan shoot paintballs at fleeing vehicles, an apparently simple solution to avoiding high-speed chases.
A number of posts led readers to believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime statistics implicated knives as far deadlier than rifles, but there are a few issues with that assessment.
A social media meme purportedly lists causes of death per day in the United States, with rifles coming in lower than nearly any other manner of death.
A bad faith argument about texting and driving deaths aimed at “‘ban gun’ teenagers” has been shared more than a million times on social media.
An authoritatively worded social media post about guns is a long-circulating mixture of decontextualized statistics and opinion.
A text meme about the company’s purported revenue loss is a paraphrase of a paraphrase.
A protest sign from 2018 claims that “last year,” guns killed more than 10,000 Americans and compared that statistic to gun deaths in other countries.
On December 7 2018, the Facebook page Change The Ref shared this meme (text below): FACT: MORE AMERICANS HAVE DIED OF GUN-RELATED INCIDENTS IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS THAN HAVE DIED IN WAR SINCE THE COUNTRY’S FOUNDING. A caption with the image read: #FckThat Fact of the Day: Did you know that more Americans have died …