Some people spout statistics because they think it makes them look really smart. Gun control advocates like to spout them about mass shootings and school shootings, and again, they think they sound very smart. However, most of them don’t really know what they’re talking about.
And Texas Republican candidate and YouTuber Brandon Herrera just blasted them over their lack of understanding.
The Democrat X account, House Majority PAC, thought they had a gotcha, posting a 30-second clip of Herrera calling the school shooting statistics a sham, and trying to attack him because the district he’s running in is the home of Uvalde.
Brandon Herrera, a congressional candidate in the district where the Uvalde school shooting took place, dismisses school shooting statistics as a “sham.” #TX23 pic.twitter.com/kY932F1PHR
— House Majority PAC (@HouseMajPAC) June 1, 2026
However, Herrera isn’t afraid to mix it up on social media, and he came out swinging.
And I’ll say it again, because I’m right.
The statistics propagandists like you use to try to pretend there are hundreds of mass shootings in schools every year are so fraudulent you should be embarrassed.
You should watch the full video, you might accidentally learn something.
— Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) June 1, 2026
The truth of the matter is that Herrera is absolutely correct. Depending on which numbers are being used, a “school shooting” could include anything up to and including a round fired even miles away that hit an empty school building in the middle of the night during Summer vacation. Many times, it’s a case of a shooting in a parking lot that’s tied to some kind of criminal act that has nothing to do with the school. Other times, it’s gang-related homicides outside of sporting events.
They’re not the same thing as a gunman barricading a classroom and executing small children, like what happened at Uvalde.
Calling those statistics a sham is, if anything, an insult to self-respecting shams.
Anti-gun groups routinely twist definitions to create the greatest number of “school shootings” or “mass shootings” possible without crossing into outright fabrication they can, which then provides “evidence” that we have some unique problem that can only be addressed with gun control.
As a guntuber, firearm manufacturer, and Second Amendment advocate, Herrera has seen all of that before and knows the game. All he did was call it out, and that was what he was attacked for. The selective editing of the clip that removes his explanation as to why it’s a sham? That’s par for the course from the left, particularly when it comes to Herrera. He’s almost used to it.
But, if they’d have left it, people might well have learned that he was right to call it a sham, because again, it’s all about manipulating the data to get a particular outcome, one that’s good for gun control and terrible for gun rights.
The truth is that if guns were the problem, then how did the Supreme Court’s decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, which put more concealed carry permits on the streets than at any point in history coincident with the largest drop in the homicide rate at any point in history?
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