Fact Check: Jimmy Kimmel Posits ‘Background Checks’ as Fix for Mass Shootings
Jimmy Kimmel claimed “background checks” are part of the fix for mass shootings, but most perpetrators pass background checks.

Jimmy Kimmel claimed “background checks” are part of the fix for mass shootings, but most perpetrators pass background checks.
The New York Times wrote Thursday that President Joe Biden “faces limits of his power” to infringe upon the Second Amendment — as the president vowed to curb the right to keep and bear arms.
Left-wing New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow accused Republicans of making the United States a “killing field” through their promotion of propaganda and an “insane” gun culture, while claiming the extraordinary levels of “American carnage” are due to the amount of “American Republicans” within the country.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the non-historian behind the widely discredited New York Times “1619 Project,” will be receiving coronavirus relief funds from a New Jersey library to cover her speaking fees.
“No overriding explanation has emerged yet for the widespread drop-off” in public school enrollment, the far-left New York Times laughably writes.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D), who will face a Republican opponent in the gubernatorial election in November, is currently running an ad to boost GOP primary candidate Doug Mastriano based on the perception that he would be the easiest to defeat, the New York Times reports.
James Myburgh notes that while Carlson’s report was inaccurate, the Times’ criticism of it was “unhinged from reality.”
The New York Times published a lead editorial on Sunday in which it warned that overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion law, would mean ending interracial marriage, repeating an erroneous argument the left has spread for days.
The woke sports subscription service The Athletic lost $6.8 million in its first year after being bought up by the New York Times.
For months, the New York Times schemed to launch an all-out assault against Tucker Carlson and now that assault has concluded with just one result: the Times once again exposed its own irrelevance and impotence.
Washington, DC, Democrats are struggling to keep Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA), who is 88-years-old, declining mental health a secret, according to the New York Times.
The establishment media on Tuesday accused Republicans of using the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade to create a political backlash.
Of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500, woke Netflix is performing the worst, according to the far-left New York Times.
The New York Times’s newly appointed executive editor, Joe Kahn, bears some responsibility for the Times’s failed “Caliphate” podcast fake news scandal.
Even though the far-left NYT has given a platform to woke scolds, the paper has just tapped Joe Kahn to be its executive editor.
The New York Times on Tuesday warned its readers the America First movement has an intellectual backbone that will dominate politics for years to come.
The New York Times published an op-ed Friday that proposes eliminating belief in God — as one of the holiest weekends of the year begins.
Democrat New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigned from office hours after his arrest on Tuesday on a federal bribery conspiracy indictment, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced.
Hillsdale College, a conservative institute of higher education focused on teaching the Western tradition, is taking a stand against leftist indoctrination in K-12 education by opening a network of charter schools set on portraying America as an “exceptionally good country.”
An NPR reporter called out her employer for not admitting it dismissed the scandal about Hunter Biden’s laptop and its links to Joe Biden.
The establishment media has reported on Hunter Biden’s $4.8 million received payments from a Chinese energy company but not the alleged payout mechanism by which the Biden family likely profited from peddling influence.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren slammed the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets Wednesday for “sugarcoating” Palestinian terrorism and pinning the blame for the recent terror attacks on Israel for “overlooking” the Palestinian issue.
CNN on Wednesday finally admitted Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” was authentic 532 days after the initial story broke in 2020.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Tuesday introduced a resolution to strip security clearances from intelligence officials who misled the public about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
John Paul Mac Isaac had legal ownership of Hunter Biden’s laptop, followed the rules, did everything right, and still They destroyed him in order to protect a wealthy and powerful Democrat named Joe Biden.
The New York Times no longer reports news about the president. It berates other journalists for reporting news about the president.
Former Bush Administration CIA director Michael Hayden, who spent much of the Trump years attacking and belittling Republicans, has yet to retract his claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation,” despite serving on the board of Newsguard — an organization that claims to oppose the refusal to correct major errors in news stories and commentary.
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday spent exactly zero seconds on his show Reliable Sources discussing the New York Times’ bombshell admission that the New York Post’s October, 2020, reporting on Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was accurate, or his false claims from the time that Hunter Biden’s laptop emails were “Russian disinformation.”
The New York Times casually mentioned in an article published Wednesday that the Laptop from Hell is authentic — after calling the original New York Post report “baroque mythology” at the time it was published — but the “Paper of Record” should not get away with obscuring its own record of deceit on this story.
CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl falsely told President Trump that Hunter’s “laptop from hell” could not be verified.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday responded to the New York Times admitting the emails found on a laptop at a repair shop in Delaware belonged to Hunter Biden and are authentic.
NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself as a source of expert knowledge on which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot, defended its track record on the Hunter Biden laptop story in comments to Breitbart News, despite its cofounder labeling the story a Russian “hoax” at the time.
Democrat Senators claimed before the 2020 presidential election that Hunter Biden’s authenticated laptop was a “debunked” “anti-Biden propaganda campaign” waged by Russia.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly spread disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop — before and after the 2020 presidential election.
James O’Keefe said Andrew Breitbart emphasized transparency — advising him, “Be yourself” — when dealing with left-wing news media.
A recent audit from the New York state comptroller has revealed disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to account for 4,100 nursing home deaths during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Internal tensions at the New York Times have reportedly flared after reporter Matthew Rosenberg apparently mocked his colleagues who were “traumatized” by the January 6 Capitol riot and dismissed the “woke” faction of the Times’ newsroom in a Project Veritas undercover video sting.
New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg said the infamous “pee tape” from Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier “doesn’t exist,” according to the latest video released by Project Veritas.
Democrats are in “reset” mode heading into the November midterms elections, the New York Times admitted Friday.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter allegedly claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people” at the Capitol on January 6, according to a video released by Project Veritas.