In a previous interview with the Second Amendment Foundation, GVA’s co-founder and executive director, Mark Bryant, defended his group’s overly broad and all-inclusive definition.

‘It doesn’t parse,’ he said. ‘It gives an accurate picture of the number of times more than four people were shot, whether in a drive-by or a shooting at a rap concert or a country music concert.”

1. “not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.” > that’s a lie. They have right now in their database many incidents where the shooter was included in their numbers if the number of victims was three to make it appear as if there were four victims to fit a self-serving definition they made up.

2. “‘It gives an accurate picture” > that’s a lie. They have incidents in their numbers where there was no gun at all, no shots fired. This is because they relied on an incorrect ‘initial’ report from media they found some place and not reading police reports completely.