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Threads posts stated on November 06, 2024 in a post on Threads:

20 million Democratic votes “disappeared” in 2024.

By Madison Czopek• November 7, 2024

Greg Abbott stated on January 14, 2011 in a press release:

There have been "at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border."

By W. Gardner Selby• January 28, 2011

Jeff Greenfield stated on February 14, 2018 in a tweet:

"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."

By Tom Kertscher• February 15, 2018

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:

Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.

By April Hunt• December 19, 2014

George P. Bush stated on August 13, 2020 in a tweet:

Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on “the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million” from the police department.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• August 24, 2020

Gun Free UT Gun Free UT stated on October 29, 2015 in web site blog post:

"29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting."

By Filipa Ioannou• November 23, 2015

Mitch McConnell stated on May 11, 2020 in a Team Trump Facebook Live:

“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”

By Victoria Knight• May 14, 2020

Barack Obama stated on May 13, 2013 in a press availability:

"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.

By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2013

GeorgiaCarry.org stated on April 09, 2014 in an interview with Georgia Public Broadcasting:

Since 1999, 440 people have been killed in attacks on church property in the United States.

By April Hunt• August 1, 2014

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on June 11, 2014 in an infographic that went viral:

There have been 74 "school shootings in America since Sandy Hook."

By Lauren Carroll• June 13, 2014

Viral image stated on October 21, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

Broken voting machines in Russellville, Ark., tried to automatically tally votes meant for Donald Trump as votes for Joe Biden.

By Bill McCarthy• November 3, 2020

Donald Trump stated on June 16, 2020 in a speech:

“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”

By Miriam Valverde• June 18, 2020

Kamala Harris stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”

By Samantha Putterman• April 22, 2024

Ron Johnson stated on May 11, 2022 in News release:

In the immediate wake of a fire and vandalism at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Democrats had not condemned “activists who are engaging in this repugnant illegal activity.”

By D.L. Davis• May 31, 2022

Joe Morrissey stated on June 18, 2020 in a radio interview.:

Protest vandalism in Richmond “all started two weeks ago when Mayor Stoney’s police gassed - tear gassed - a peaceful crowd of protesters, moms and children, at 7:30 p.m. sharp.”

By Warren Fiske• June 25, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Seattle police in uniform “vandalizing” a building “to frame protesters.”

By Tom Kertscher• June 2, 2020

Jim Rubens stated on March 24, 2014 in in an interview at gun shop in Hudson, N.H.:

Says when armed civilians stop mass shootings with guns, an average of 2.5 people die; otherwise, an average of 18 people die.

By Jim Haddadin• June 6, 2014

Dan Patrick stated on January 03, 2016 in an interview on Meet the Press:

Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."

By W. Gardner Selby• January 13, 2016

John Cornyn stated on March 17, 2010 in in a letter to President Barack Obama:

"The spillover violence (from Mexico) in Texas is real and it is escalating."

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 28, 2010

Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated on November 27, 2018 in a press briefing:

"Tear gas was used on average once a month during the Obama administration for very similar circumstances."

By Miriam Valverde• November 28, 2018

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