Fox News Wonders Why Armed Citizens Don’t Stop Mass Shootings

Picking up on our groundbreaking investigation into mass shootings, Fox News this week struggled to grasp why arming “good guys” to stop massacres is a NRA fantasy. Senior editor Mark Follman sat down with the network to explain our investigative findings. (Note: Fox’s report conveniently ignores key details of shootings it cites from Colorado and Nevada; recently we exposed others using these same cases deceptively to support the “good guys with guns” argument.) Watch:

 

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