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Virginia Elementary School Shooting Revealed to Be a Preventable Fiasco

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    8% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    21% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Federal law prohibits users of illegal drugs from possessing a firearm, and purchasers have to attest they are not drug users at the time they buy a gun.
33% : Deja Taylor, 26, of Newport News, Va., pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of being an illegal drug user while possessing a firearm and one count of falsely claiming she did not smoke marijuana on the background check form she filled out when she purchased the handgun her son used in the shooting.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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