Ted has a lot of facts and figures here we should write down and memorize a couple of them.
- Since 1988 there have been 9 attacks like the Robb Elementary School shooting. But when you adjust for population, there are many other countries from Germany to Russia to Finland that have comparable rates of school shootings.
- According to a Crime Prevention Research Center report from 2020, the US is well below the average in terms of mass public shootings, and the global increase overtime has been much bigger than the United States.
- The US makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of the murders, and 2.19% of their attacks. All of these are much less than the United States’ 4.6% of world’s share of population.
- Out of the 101 countries we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the US ranks 66 in per capita frequency of these attacks and 56 in the murder rate.
- Most people don’t know Democrats have been blocking funding for more school safety for years.
The question(charge) is a one-liner followed up by another quickie. The response takes longer. Drive by tactics that put us on defense right off the bat. Add to it the short attention spans of the listeners. There you have it. Why do you think the left talks in short rhymes?