On Tuesday night, CNN ran an article citing a mass shooting that never happened, to make an argument against machine gun fire that may never have happened.
CNN’s efforts focus on “auto switches that turn semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons.” Switches are illegal, but CNN notes that “devices appear to be a new commodity on the black market.”
CNN continues to say that fully automatic fire is a growing problem and is becoming more prominent among major crimes.
As an example, they cite “a mass shooting in Sacramento, California, in which six people were killed and a dozen injured.” The problem with this example is that it’s not a batch shot.
Instead, it was a shot.
A photo taken on April 3, 2022 shows the location where the shooting took place in Sacramento, California, USA. In downtown Sacramento, California, on Sunday, local police said six people were killed and at least nine injured. (via Getty by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)
The shooting in Sacramento took place on April 3, 2022 and was quickly massively labeled by the official media. But on April 6, 2022, Breitbart News said: Los Angeles times He acknowledged that the Sacramento shooting was most likely a clash between gangs or street criminals and was not a “mass shooting.”
WE The magazine reported that pop duo Aly and AJ said their tour bus was caught in the crossfire during a shooting in Sacramento. Crossfire is a feature of warfare, not a sign of “mass fire”.
So CNN is talking about the mass shooting that didn’t happen.
They also point to ShotSpotter technologies as a way to detect fully automatic fire. ShotSpotter “has contracts with around 130 cities where it has placed acoustic sensors in designated areas to listen to footage.”
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The problem with CNN citing them to prove full auto fire is that ShotSpotter doesn’t necessarily detect full auto fire. Instead, they focus on spotting weapons, period.
CNN also noted that ShotSpotter’s “fully automatic” identification of an incident is for the police department’s “situational awareness” only, stating that outdoor footage is not guaranteed in the same way as its primary identification and search function.
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