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Instagram posts
stated on December 16, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Photo of a young man in a tie shows Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow.

By Sofia Ahmed • December 17, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 23, 2024 in an Instagram post:

The government is arming “illegal immigrants.”

By Sofia Ahmed • September 26, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media:

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 27, 2024 in an Instagram post:

The ATF updated its background check policy to allow “illegal immigrants” to purchase firearms.

By Sofia Ahmed • February 28, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 1, 2024 in a video:

Removing gun-related homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis would drop the U.S. to 189th out of 193 countries in gun violence.

By Loreben Tuquero • February 27, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 21, 2024 in Instagram posts:

The states that have 97% of guns are the states with the least amount of gun violence.

By Sofia Ahmed • February 27, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on November 17, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:

"La administración acaba de aprobar este vacío legal, 100% legal, que permite a todos los residentes estadounidenses en buena posición obtener un permiso de portación oculta (de armas) válido en 2023".

By Marta Campabadal Graus • December 21, 2023
Alex Mooney
stated on August 21, 2023 in a campaign website:

Jim Justice “supports banning sporting rifles for law-abiding citizens.”

By Ayden Norcross • October 24, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on September 25, 2023 in an Instagram reel:

"Trump just bought a handgun!”

By Sara Swann • September 27, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 28, 2023 in a Facebook post:

“Shots fired T.L Hanna High School 1 seriously injured.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 29, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2023 in una publicación de Facebook:

“Arma que EE.UU. le dio a Ucrania es vista en manos de cártel”.

By Marta Campabadal Graus • June 20, 2023
Cameron Sexton
stated on March 30, 2023 in an interview:

Actions of the Tennessee state legislators who protested against gun violence were “at least equivalent” to the actions of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2023
Laura Ingraham
stated on March 31, 2023 in a segment on “The Ingraham Angle":

Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee “made their way onto the state Capitol floor.”

By Madison Czopek • April 4, 2023
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
Instagram posts
stated on February 26, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Rifles “were involved in 297 deaths” in the U.S. in 2022 and “constipation killed 2,167.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 28, 2023
Social Media
stated on February 13, 2023 in social media posts:

“Michigan State University suspect is 22-year-old ‘Raymone Jordan.’”

By Loreben Tuquero • February 15, 2023
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
Mark Obenshain
stated on January 31, 2023 in a floor speech.:

“You know how many children are dying across Virginia because of fentanyl poisoning? A heck of a lot more than are dying at the hands of guns.”

By Warren Fiske • February 7, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 8, 2022 in a video:

“They removed your ability to go buy firearms the day of election.”

By Andy Nguyen • December 2, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:

There were two shooters in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 21, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on July 28, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats "want to turn 150 million Americans into felons overnight" with HR 1808.

By Andy Nguyen • August 3, 2022
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
Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, “bought the gun illegally.”

By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on July 5, 2022 in a tweet:

Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.

By Bill McCarthy • July 5, 2022
Greg Gutfeld
stated on June 23, 2022 in a TV segment:

No one “with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting."

By Bill McCarthy • June 28, 2022
Van Wanggaard
stated on June 5, 2022 in TV interview:

Waiting periods for gun purchases may not make a difference, because "If somebody's decided that they're gonna take their life, they're gonna take their life."

By Madeline Heim • June 21, 2022
Gun Owners of America
stated on June 8, 2022 in a tweet:

“U.S. House of Reps. votes 226-194 to criminalize disassembling, cleaning, and re-assembling your gun without a firearm manufacturer’s license, including 8 Republicans!”

By Gabrielle Settles • June 17, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 10, 2022 in in a TV segment:

“Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.”

By Samantha Putterman • June 13, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on June 4, 2022 in an Instagram post:

White supremacists are going to be “shooting up all Walmarts and will kill Blacks and Mexicans” in San Bernardino, California.

By Jeff Cercone • June 8, 2022

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