Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings and Mass Public Violence in the US and Europe

Crime Prevention Research Center ^ | JUNE 23, 2015 | Crime Prevention Research Center

[richardb72]

In his address to the nation after the Charleston attack, Obama claimed: “we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”

Senator Harry Reid made a similar statement on June 23rd: “The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs. Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. … We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons.”

This claim is simply not true. Mass public shootings –

[wastoute]

We could make illegal aliens leave because they are criminals. We don’t even need any new laws.

[Sacajaweau]

That sicko dude is one out of a million.

Blacks kill that many blacks in Chicago every day. And we hear nothing about "change".

[Gay State Conservative]

I've seen FBI stats on murder in the US broken down by race of victim and race of killer.The stats showed that inter-racial murder is rare here...most murder victims are killed by someone of the same race.However,they *also* showed that whites are much more likely to be killed by a black than are blacks likely to be murdered by a white.

IIRC those stats were from 2009.

[skeeter]

ping

[Svartalfiar]

Recently posted elsewhere:

The top three mass public shootings, 9 of the worst 13, are outside the United States

[minnesota_bound]

WW1, WW2 deaths in Europe quite outnumber most anywhere else on earth. The “regular” crime I bet is very high. Socialists usual hide their numbers if bad. Kinda like the unemployment amount here and now the illegals committing crime.

[GreyHoundSailor]

The stats were from 2009, but they covered a 20 year period.

[the scotsman]

It happens in other countries. It just happens more often in the US.

Those in the US who say it dosent happen ‘abroad’ are stupid. BUT equally America shouldn’t use that it does happen outside the US to ignore their own level of shootings.

Its an uncomfortable truth the US should have and has to address. The right cannot ignore it and scream 2nd Amendment and do nothing, the left cannot scream ban guns as guns aren’t the issue. Its the culture of violence in the US that has to be addressed. Guns are only a scapegoat tool of a deeper problem.

I love America, but the fact is that it happens more often in the US than any other Western nation. In fact as often historically in the US than all those countries combined.

[newfreep]

2013 FBI Homicide Stats

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls

White-on-Black 189
Black-on-White 409

Black-on-Black 2,245