{"id":81896,"date":"2015-12-09T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81896"},"modified":"2015-12-08T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:03:13","slug":"how-common-are-active-shootings-abortion-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/how-common-are-active-shootings-abortion-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"How common are active shootings at abortion facilities?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to a 2014 report <\/a>from the FBI which examined 160 active shooter incidents that occurred between 2000 and 2013, more incidents occurred at houses of worship than at health care facilities \u00a0– and none<\/em> at abortion facilities. This information calls into question\u00a0the weeks of skewed media reporting claiming pro-life “rhetoric” prompted the violent actions of a shooter at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on November 27 this year, which left three people dead and nine injured.<\/p>\n

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As tragic as any act of violence is, the media and the abortion industry are\u00a0attempting to portray gun violence at abortion facilities like\u00a0Planned Parenthood as a regular occurrence, something this FBI study disputes. To date, authorities investigating the 2015 shooting incident have not publicly commented on the motives of the shooter, Robert Lewis Dear, who now faces first degree murder charges. Pro-life groups nationwide have condemned<\/a> Dear’s actions.<\/p>\n

According to the report<\/a>, between 2000 – 2013, shooters at health care facilities were outnumbered by shootings in all other categories. The largest percentage of active shooter incidents\u201445.6 percent\u2014took place in a commercial environment (73 incidents), followed by 24.3 percent that took place in an educational environment (39 incidents). The remaining incidents occurred at the other location types with the lowest<\/em> percentage being health care facilities – and of those, none<\/em> were Planned Parenthood or abortion centers.<\/p>\n

The FBI identified 11 separate incident location categories which included commercial areas (divided into malls, businesses open to pedestrian traffic, and businesses closed to pedestrian traffic), educational environments (divided into schools [pre-kindergarten through 12th grade] and Institutes of Higher Education), open spaces, government properties (divided into military and other government properties), residences, houses of worship, and health care facilities. Active shooting incidents (defined in the report as “a situation in which a shooting is in progress and an aspect of the crime may affect the protocols used in responding to and reacting at the scene of the incident”)\u00a0broke down as follows:<\/p>\n