After the failure of his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group to sway public opinion in favor of more gun control, Michael Bloomberg announced earlier this year that he would be funneling at least $50 million to a new, “grassroots” organization now called Everytown For Gun Safety with the hope of “outmuscling” that scourge of civilized society, the National Rifle Association, and their ill-begotten political influence (because of, you know, their five million official members and millions more sympathizers). In what is only Everytown’s latest display of choosing deliberate exaggerations, lies, and scare tactics over honest conversation, the group recently updated their running list claiming that there have now been at least 74 school shootings just since the massacre at Newtown in December of 2012, which a HuffPo editor then helpfully mapped out:

About 1.37 school shootings per school week since Newtown http://t.co/xGrA28Q6nC Map: http://t.co/CADmZUUMdv pic.twitter.com/FV9Dio3yHw

— Mark Gongloff (@markgongloff) June 10, 2014

Here’s the Washington Post‘s version, too. Any school shooting is an unacceptable tragedy for which we should be looking for practical, effective solutions, and an average of more than one school shooting every week is all the more eye-poppingly horrifying. It sounds like we have an outright epidemic on our hands — but, have there really been 74 “school shootings” in just eighteen months? Charles C. Johnsen, a.k.a. @ChuckCJohnson on the Twitters, took a closer look at the various crimes that Everytown has been lumping into its list, and unsurprisingly, quite a few are undeserving of the designation of a “school shooting.” Here’s a sampling of some of his research:

Another fake school shooting listed by Everytown. Northwest High School principal shot by her ex-husband on campus. http://t.co/RwwVbPmbL5

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Student killed because of gang activity. http://t.co/Q0eoKvJycQ

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 10, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Crazy man shoots himself at high school, never went to school. http://t.co/z9ncFf7xjK

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Ex-high school student kills self in parking lot. http://t.co/AJa6DslVcT

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake school shooting by Everytown. Gang-related drive by is now a mass shooting? http://t.co/Wrnwb2I2LT

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Another fake shooting by Everytown. Gang-related crossfire hits bystander. http://t.co/bONNGsIYsJ

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

Fake school shooting listed by Everytown was gang initiation in Fresno. http://t.co/giKIKyLEhz #RHShooting

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

And on, and on, and on, until…

By my count fewer than 7 of the 74 school shootings listed by #Everytown are real mass shootings. #NotOneMore

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) June 11, 2014

It certainly seems like suicides and gang violence should be delineated from “school shootings” (in which the “mass” is pretty much implied) as separate problems, no? Unless, of course, your real goal is to falsely portray an America in which wildly violent, deadly, and indiscriminate gun violence is increasing — rather than the actual trend in which it has for two decades been sharply decreasing.