The president retweeted Thursday morning a tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham, linking to a Reason article, in which Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox blamed the media. 'There is no evidence that we are in the midst of an epidemic of mass shootings,' he said. '
Less than two weeks after a total of 31 people were killed in back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump retweeted a tweet that said the United States was not in the"midst of an epidemic of mass shootings.”
"The media coverage of shootings often ends up creating a false sense that gun violence—which is at or near historic lows—is ubiquitous and growing," he continued. Additionally, Brian Harrell, Trump’s assistant director for Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security, who spoke at a cyber security conference on Wednesday, said,"society is becoming more violent every day."
Beyond mass shootings, the retweet comes after six police officers were shot during a shootout with an alleged gunman in Philadelphia.
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