The Myth That The US Leads The World In Mass Shootings

[L84CABO]

When you hear the Left making statements that US leads the world in mass shootings, they are usually quoting the study done by University of Alabama associate professor, Adam Lankford.

Well our old friend, John Lott, has something to say about this. It seems that Mr. Lankford based his opinion on the supposed fact that there were 90 mass shootings in the US since 1966, compared to 202 in the rest of the world. Well John Lott found over 3000 mass shootings in the rest of the world! Moreover, it appears to date that Mr Lankford has been unwilling to share his data and exactly how he got it.

Link to the article here...

http://freedombunker.com/2019/02/25/the-myth-that-the-us-leads-the-world-in-mass-shootings/?fbclid=IwAR2jzSslqCHitX_rwE7ifCjLAph1b8753fnNBf0AmVAd912vm_a2dR-y3s4

The Dominant Narrative

"Let's be clear,” President Obama said in 2015 after a shooting in North Carolina. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries."

Sen. Harry Reid echoed this sentiment. "The United States is the only advanced country where this kind of mass violence occurs.”

Media headlines have left little doubt that the US leads the world in mass shootings. In fact, according to CNN, it isn’t even close.

And John Stossel just recently did a report on this as well if you would rather watch the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGgI2E5JUw

[ja308]

Are you implying the associate professor from a crummy government school cooked the books or is just flat out incompetent?

Professor John Lott's book more guns =less crime is a must read for all who want facts.
Although I must admit when reading it, some of algorithms data was beyond my understanding. However the idea's were clearly outlined and how the data was collected was understandable.

Thanx for posting OP !

[BTFlyer]

The professor is probably looking at the stats that last year America had over 300 mass shootings and European countries like the UK had zero or close to zero...

[MJ50]

fake news should be a felony

[harbormaster]

The elite class isn't the billionaires or bankers;

It is Academia that makes stuff up, for Government and sold to the sheep by Media.

[ja308]

The professor is probably looking at the stats that last year America had over 300 mass shootings and European countries like the UK had zero or close to zero...

In other news nations w/o cars have zero car deaths !

[BTFlyer]

In other news nations w/o cars have zero car deaths !

That's left wing gun-grabbing thinking right there!

[ja308]

That's left wing gun-grabbing thinking right there!

Why would you say that ?

[PogoJack]

Thank you, OP! It's great to address the gish galloping and sealioning of leftist tyrants.

A mild hijack but since we are talking about facts, here is an article that my pea brain found useful in order to counter the more guns=higher rate gun deaths statistic.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/fun_with_statistics_and_the_gun_control_debate.html

[k1dude]

I wonder why Lott only chose between 2009 and 2015? Perhaps the data was so overwhelming in his favor he simply stopped going back at 2009? I can't imagine the herculean task of trying to find all mass shootings since 1966 in 171 countries printed in native languages.

[BTFlyer]

Why would you say that ?

You said that countries with almost no guns have almost no mass shootings...You are correct...but it is an unpopular opinion here on CG

[ja308]

You said that countries with almost no guns have almost no mass shootings...You are correct...but it is an unpopular opinion here on CG

Thank you !
Fortunately we do have a really low murder rate and it would be lots lower w/o the politics of open borders and democratic cities where politicians pay baby mamas to have more kids w/o fathers!

[CAL.BAR]

You said that countries with almost no guns have almost no mass shootings...You are correct...but it is an unpopular opinion here on CG

EXACTLY. We decry the "other" side for lack of intellectually honesty, and show none of our own. YES! Countries without guns in the hands of the general populace have MUCH lower firearms deaths (shocking). So what? Why try to deny that?

There are very few deaths by drowning in the desert.

The point is... and our HONEST answer to statistics like this should be. YES, those countries have lower firearms deaths, but the freedom from tyranny and right to self-protect firearms afford a FREE people is more important than any number of firearms related deaths. Period. Much like the utility of automotive transport in the hands of a free people outweighs the any number of deaths from automobile accidents.

[DDM4556]

(please read the following with an upward inflection at the end of every comment.)

Sooo he's like, a professor... At like, a major college and stuff... So he knows like, how to do research.... And so what he says has to be true.... Cuz like, books don't lie.

[k1dude]

You said that countries with almost no guns have almost no mass shootings...You are correct...but it is an unpopular opinion here on CG

Not even close to true. The greatest number of mass shooting deaths by far is from countries that have outright bans on all guns.