The Left lies. A lot.

About many things, but especially about guns. They love to say guns are the biggest killer of children -- but conveniently include 18 and 19-year-olds to skew the data.

And now we're learning a Pennsylvania student lied about a school shooting in the state. 

The shooting, it turns out, never happened.

Dallas grad accused of lying about mass shooting | James Halpin, The Citizens Voice

A former Luzerne County student gave an emotional address to a crowd at the Kentucky State Capitol earlier this year, delivering a harrowing account of surviving a mass shooting that killed his… pic.twitter.com/TtziN5j870

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) May 29, 2025

The entire post is long, but here are some of the highlights:

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Calvin Polachek, a former student baseball player who graduated in 2020 and went on to attend Bentley University in Massachusetts and become a graduate student at the University of Louisville, was quoted in Kentucky media as saying his brother, best friend and nine others were murdered at Dallas High School in 2017.

“A week later, I had to go back to that school, and that was the worst part because you had to walk past that spot where I saw my best friend and pretend it was all normal. It was not normal,” Polachek said during a February rally for the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. “Folks, that’s been eight years, and I’ve been talking about this every single day since then for eight years. Eight years of talking about this, and there’s been nothing that’s changed.”

Polachek’s comments were quoted in a news article by the local Fox affiliate in Lexington, as well as in an article by the Kentucky Lantern news outlet. The Fox TV affiliate, WDKY, removed its story after news of the falsehood surfaced on Wednesday, while the Lantern removed Polachek’s comments with an editor’s note that the “school district, local police and classmates have since refuted his claims.”

The speech drew swift criticism from Polachek’s former classmates, some of whom took to Facebook to note that a mass shooting never occurred during their time in Dallas.

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Dallas Twp. Police Chief Doug Higgins noted in a Facebook post on Wednesday that Polachek’s comments were picked up not only in the local media in Kentucky, but also on national sites such as MSN and Yahoo News.

“The widespread sharing of a fabricated tragedy is not only reckless, it is harmful. It fuels unnecessary fear, disrespects the experiences of real victims of school violence, and misleads the public with a narrative that has no basis in truth,” Higgins wrote, going on to note that there has never been a shooting at Dallas High School. “These false claims are deeply troubling. They undermine the integrity of our school district, erode public trust, and cause real harm to a community that takes great pride in protecting its residents, especially its children.”

Not only is Polachek's behavior psychopathic -- he claims to have spoken about this issue for the better part of a decade -- and a brazen attempt to undermine our Second Amendment rights ... he got away with it.

Calvin Polachek stood before a crowd of people and claimed that eleven people were killed at his school, and media outlets, both local and national, printed his story as gospel truth.

Because guns are bad. Or something.

You know what's worse? People who lie to strip their fellow Americans of their constitutional rights, and do so by standing on the fictitious bodies of their classmates.

This isn't just a damning indictment of the Left, including Polacheck, but also our media. This comes at a time when trust in media is at an all-time low (an entirely self-inflicted wound, by the way). There is no way -- no way -- that eleven kids were killed in Pennsylvania without it being massive headline news that we'd all remember.

And not one journalist, politician, or activist who heard Polachek speak asked him a single question. Not one challenged him. It was up to alternative media to correct this story. As always, the original story gets more traction than the retraction, and that's the point.

I will not be surprised at all to see gun control groups and anti-gun politicians cite Polachek's story as proof we need gun laws, even though it's a complete fabrication.

I hope authorities are speaking to Polachek, because a guy who is willing to lie so blatantly about his best friend and brother being killed to advance his anti-gun agenda may not stop there. Connor Sturgeon, who killed five people in a shooting at a Kentucky bank, left a note saying he wanted his crime to demonstrate how easy it was to get a gun in America.

In the meantime, I hope the media learns to verify these stories before publishing them.

But I won't hold my breath on that one.