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Everytown’s EveryShot AI Shows Why Gun Statistics Need Human Scrutiny

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Everytown for Gun Safety, the Bloomberg-funded anti-2A juggernaut, just unleashed EveryShot—an AI-powered shotspotter for news stories about shootings, built on the lightweight ChatGPT-4o mini model. Billed as a revolutionary tool to track every bullet fired in America, it promises instant data pulls on gun violence incidents. But in a delicious twist of tech hubris, EveryShot is already unraveling under scrutiny, spitting out wildly inaccurate stats like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. Early tests reveal it double-counts events, hallucinates non-existent shootings, and mangles basic facts—proving once again that when gun control groups weaponize AI, the bugs expose their agenda faster than a jammed Glock.

This isn’t just a glitchy app; it’s a masterclass in why AI-fueled gun stats demand human skepticism, especially from the 2A community. Everytown’s track record of cherry-picking data—like inflating mass shootings by including gang beefs and domestic squabbles—gets turbocharged here, but the AI’s transparency (it shows its reasoning steps) lets us dissect the sausage-making. For instance, it conflates suicides with homicides or grabs unverified social media rumors as gospel, echoing past fiascos like the CDC’s overcounted gun deaths. The implications? Pro-2A advocates now have a shiny new foil: demand EveryShot’s raw datasets for audits, turning their own tool against them to highlight underreported defensive gun uses (over 2.5 million annually per Kleck’s research) that their biased prompts conveniently ignore.

For gun owners, this is a rallying cry—AI isn’t infallible, and neither are the activists wielding it. As EveryShot stumbles, it underscores the need for rigorous, source-verified stats from outlets like the Crime Prevention Research Center, not activist echo chambers. Share this far and wide; it’s prime ammo to debunk the next epidemic narrative before it hits the headlines. Stay vigilant, 2A fam—because when the machines falter, truth always has the cleaner shot.

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