NBC’s Hysteria over ‘Mass Killings’ in the U.S.

The article begins as most anti-gun articles do, with a scary headline.

Mass killings occur in USA once every two weeks

Run for your lives! We’re living in Auschwitz!

Using news accounts and FBI records from 2006 through 2010, the most recent years for which complete records were available, USA TODAY identified 156 murders that met the FBI definitions of mass killings, where four or more people were killed.

All told, the attacks killed 774 people, including at least 161 young children.

That’s the FBI definition of mass killing? Rudolf Höss must be laughing in hell.

Of course, the inconvenient truths start coming out at the middle of the article, perfect for those who only read the lead and then give up.

A third of mass killings didn’t involve guns at all. In 15 incidents, the victims died in a fire. In 20 others, the killer used a knife or a blunt object.

 

No statement from Mayors Against Illegal Fires/Knives/Blunt Objects?

And here’s how the article finished, what should have been in the lead got written last.

But for all the attention they receive, mass killings still accounted for only a tiny fraction — about 1% — of all the Americans who were murdered over those five years. During those five years, more died from migraines and falling out of chairs than were murdered by mass killers, according to death records kept by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three times as many people perished from sunstroke.

Look at all the things libs will have to ban now- Charis, migraines, even the very sun.