What a Crock

Here's a ridiculous puff piece making the rounds of the left-wing media:

• The FBI has helped to disrupt or prevent nearly 150 shootings and violent attacks this year, in part by steering potential gunmen toward mental health professionals.
  There have been hundreds of these disruptions since 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder told an audience of police chiefs in October, touting the behind-the-scenes work of a small FBI unit based out of Quantico, Va. In most cases, the FBI has helped potential offenders get access to mental health care.

And just how do they come up with this number? Easy, they made it up.

There is no way to gauge how many shootings the feebs have "prevented." There is no set of indicators that point to any individual as a "shooter." There are warning signs in some people, behaviors that might lead one to believe they have the "potential" to harm themselves or others, but most people displaying those behaviors do not end up shooting up offices, school or public places.

We're going to claim that we, personally, have prevented about 25,000 shootings by merely noting that no shootings have taken place in our presence over the past decade. We use a 10-year measurement because some poor bastard did manage to get lit up as we rolled up to an in-progress call, but since then, we've been batting 1.000. Perfection!

We'll also note that the feebs have completely missed all the warning signs of Sandy Hook, Aurora, the DC/Navy Yard shooting along with a few dozen others in recent years. With a miserable track record like that and a sizable body count to hang on their blown calls, we can see why they'd want to make shit up for Holder's/Obama's political agenda.