New York Post94%
Hero armed citizen opened fire on Idaho In-N-Out gunman, tried to stop shooting that left 2 dead, 7 wounded: harrowing video 69%
By Anthony Blair91%
8/2/2026, 5:01:35 AM
Topics: Gun Violence, Mass Shootings
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 35.2% saturation with 45 hits. Analysis detected 277 faulty-reasoning hits from 128 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.3% and a BS Rank of 69% (8,015 of 25,266 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.30% of the article peer group.
A heroic armed citizen tried to take out a gunman as he opened fire on an Idaho In-N-Out, according to heart-stopping video and witnesses.
Harrowing footage shows a man with a handgun exchanging fire with the shooter outside the restaurant in Twin Falls, ID.
Two people were killed and seven wounded.
The gunman is believed to have killed himself, according to police.
Koehn, armed citizen, and the employee then stayed with the wounded worker until paramedics arrived.
“She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know.
I hope she made it,” Koehn told KPTV.
Police are yet to announce the identity and motive of the deceased gunman.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
8.6%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
15.6%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
35.2%Framing Effect
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35.2%AuthorAnthony Blair
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
10.2%Status Quo Bias
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10.2%AuthorAnthony Blair
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
13.3%Optimism Bias
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13.3%AuthorAnthony Blair
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Pessimism Bias
10.2%Pessimism Bias
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10.2%AuthorAnthony Blair
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Negativity Bias
21.9%Negativity Bias
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21.9%AuthorAnthony Blair
19.3%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
35.2%Appeal to Emotion
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35.2%AuthorAnthony Blair
12.6%PublicationCalifornia Post
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
15.6%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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128 words analyzed.
Analysis
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