However, Everytown, a web group that is dedicated to counting those statistics, has recently spread inaccurate calculations that need to be reconsidered. According to an article written by Anya Kamenetz about the number 18, it states that “On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school...killed himself.” Such incident is recorded on the group’s website as a “school shooting” and the first one of the year. Which, according to the official definition of a school shooting, is not considered one. The event hadn’t even taken place inside the school building or injured any students since it was after classes had finished. Kamenetz agrees by saying that, “Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings.” As the list goes on, the more absurd and ridiculous the events get. The same article also describes another incident where “a man in an Indiana high school parking [let his gun] accidentally [go] off in his glove box…”. This example hadn’t even been a deliberate decision by the man and was indeed a simple accident. Nonetheless, Everytown still includes the incident on their website. As a vital part of backing an argument, politicians and the public need evidence to support their opinion. However, when unreliable information such as the one from Everytown circulates in social media, the public is misinformed and such evidence cannot be