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Search results for "A gunman opened fire at an Oklahoma high school"

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Viral image stated on March 22, 2021 in a tweet:
These 11 mass shootings involved an AR-15-style weapon.
By Jon Greenberg• March 24, 2021
X posts stated on July 15, 2024 in X posts:
Video shows Trump gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks yelling “slash Republican throats”
By Ranjan Jindal• July 15, 2024
Instagram posts stated on March 29, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“The UK has had ZERO school shootings since” it changed its gun laws after a 1996 school shooting.
By Madison Czopek• March 31, 2023
Threads posts stated on July 14, 2024 in a post on Threads:
Trump campaign rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was “arrested more than once.”
By Ranjan Jindal• July 16, 2024
Facebook posts stated on May 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The Uvalde, Texas, school shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 25, 2022
Philip Levine stated on February 20, 2018 in a TV ad:
"Here in Florida, despite 14 school shootings in eight years, we still have some of the weakest gun laws in the nation."
By Allison Graves• February 23, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2022 in an image on Facebook:
“The gunman at Greenwood Park Mall was a CIA asset.”
By Madison Czopek• July 22, 2022
X posts stated on November 20, 2022 in a tweet:
The Club Q shooting was a “false flag.”
By Andy Nguyen• November 22, 2022
New York Times Editorial Board stated on June 14, 2017 in a New York Times editorial:
A political map circulated by Sarah Palin’s PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords’ shooting
By John Kruzel• June 15, 2017
Facebook posts stated on February 13, 2023 in a Facebook post:
The Michigan State University shooter is a 21-year-old man named Lynn Dee Walker.
By Samantha Putterman• February 14, 2023
Viral image stated on February 20, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Canada has only “had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 23, 2023
Barack Obama stated on June 18, 2015 in remarks at the White House:
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."
By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson• June 22, 2015
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2023 in a screenshot shared on Facebook:
Photo of person holding sign shows the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville, Tennessee, school.
By Madison Czopek• March 30, 2023
Beto O'Rourke stated on August 03, 2019 in a press conference:
Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 (murders per year). We exceeded that average just on one day" after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.
By Madlin Mekelburg• August 5, 2019
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2024 in a video:
Thomas Matthew Crooks worked for BlackRock "in the past" and BlackRock owned the building Crooks stood on when he shot at the Trump campaign rally.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• July 26, 2024
Viral image stated on March 01, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Oklahoma students “sucking on the toes of adults.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 7, 2024
Social Media stated on July 24, 2024 in in social media posts:
ABC News reporter said “government tried to kill” former President Donald Trump.
By Jeff Cercone• July 26, 2024
Facebook posts stated on November 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says ABC 7 reported the Santa Clarita high school shooting "3 weeks in advance."
By Miriam Valverde• November 26, 2019
Jack Posobiec stated on March 23, 2021 in a tweet:
“New information coming in that Boulder shooter was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs.”
By Daniel Funke• March 24, 2021
Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."
By Tom Kertscher• March 30, 2021

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By Amy Sherman• February 15, 2018

Gun violence spiked during pandemic, even as the deadliest mass shootings waned

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Fact-checking misinformation after the El Paso, Dayton shootings

By Daniel Funke, John Kruzel• August 5, 2019

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Fact-checking claims in the wake of the Parkland school shooting

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