CNN’s list of the “27 Deadliest Mass Shootings In U.S. History, only one was raised by his biological father since childhood.
“Indeed, there is a direct correlation between boys who grow up with absent fathers and boys who drop out of school, who drink, who do drugs, who become delinquent and who wind up in prison,” she writes. “And who kill their classmates.”
This problem can’t be solved by any policy, or any sort of gun control. It is time to have a serious discussion about the degradation of our cultural norms.
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The headline is flatly false. The Fox News story that started this meme examined only the seven mass shooters carried out by men under 30 since 2005. Six of those seven -- not 26 out of 27 -- were not raised to adulthood by their biological fathers (dismissing adoptive fathers and stepfathers who step up and do their job is another issue).
A cursory effort at looking at the backgrounds of even a few of the 27 shooters in the CNN list would be enough to debunk the false claim in your headline. It's a pity so few of the outlets passing on this false meme bother to do any fact-checking. Every day, every hour that headline remains uncorrected on your site calls your commitment to -- or even interest in -- accuracy into question.
Andy: For God's sake do not quote CNN. Go to the last 27 shooters. You will find Muslims, Democrats, fatherless children. You will not find conservative Christians.
Read my column dated Feb.26 on what we need to do to change our climate. The first that needs to be done is change the liberal 'anything goes' culture.
Andy, Always look forward to hearing from you. I very much appreciate your comments.
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