Associated Press100%
Security at San Diego mosque 'delayed' shooters and saved lives, official says 98%
5/19/2026, 11:20:40 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Halo Effect, with Hindsight Bias as the most egregious example at 50.8% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 218 faulty-reasoning hits from 126 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 97.1% and a BS Rank of 98% (418 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.50% of the video peer group.
The individuals that did this heinous act ran past the security guard, most likely not knowing he was there.
He immediately observed the threat to everybody at the mosque.
He began to engage them with gunfire.
Both suspects returned fire.
You can see the security guard reach for his radio and put out the lockdown protocol.
The security guard then continued to engage in a gun battle with these two suspects.
His actions, without a doubt, delayed, distracted, and ultimately deterred these two individuals from gaining access to the greater areas of the mosque where as many as 140 kids were within 15 ft of these suspects.
Tragically, he died in that gun battle.
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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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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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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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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126 words analyzed.
Analysis
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