ABC News Media Tweet: Two Students Shot Day After Trump Shut Down Office Of Gun Violence Prevention

Posted • January 22, 2025: Back when this editor was teaching freshman English, he'd spend a couple of days on logical fallacies. One was the appeal to authority, which runs rampant in the mainstream media with every "experts say" story they run. Another one was post hoc ergo propter hoc, meaning that because something happened before something else, it must have been the cause. A good example of this comes to us from WKRN, an ABC affiliate in Nashville, which reported on a school shooting Wednesday. The broadcast is fine, but we wonder who came up with the text for the post: K-12 School Shooting Database @K12ssdb: “The day after the new president shutdown the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, two students were shot by another student at Antioch High School in Nashville, TN. The shooting happened at 11am this morning inside the school's cafeteria.”

Yes, that's what did it. The student was holding off on shooting two other students until the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection was shut down. If only that office had remained open. I can’t believe a website was all that was keeping us safe this whole time! 🫢 (…)

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