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America doesn’t actually lead the world in mass shootings
New York Post ^ | 8/13/2018 | John Lott and Michael Weisser

Posted on 05/25/2022 8:11:07 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat

The claim that the US has by far the most mass public shootings in the world drives much of the gun-control debate. Many argue that America’s high rate of gun possession explains the high rate of mass shootings.

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Of the 86 countries where we have identified mass public shootings, the US ranks 56th per capita in its rate of attacks and 61st in mass public shooting murder rate. Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Russia all have at least 45 percent higher rates of murder from mass public shootings than the United States.

When Lankford’s data is revised, the relationship between gun ownership rates and mass public shooters disappears.

How could that be? One possibility is that guns don’t just enable mass shooters; gun owners can also deter and prevent such shootings. Another is that culture — not gun ownership — is a bigger factor in shootings.

The media should be wary of any researchers who fail to let others look at their data. At least on this point, the intellectual base for liberal thunder about mass public shootings is wrong.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; massshootings
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1 posted on 05/25/2022 8:11:07 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Give Joe time, he is working on it. We’ll be number 1 soon.


2 posted on 05/25/2022 8:13:09 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: All

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The Republicans need to run to the Cameras - and tell the American people that Joe Biden’s own son committed a Felony by lying on a Federal Gun Application - and nothing was done!

If they do that, see Chuckie Schumer slow to a crawl on his new legislation he’s forcing a Vote on and telling all the Reporters about.

Educate the American people!

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3 posted on 05/25/2022 8:23:34 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Depends on which statistics you are looking at.


4 posted on 05/25/2022 8:24:21 AM PDT by x
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To: Republican Wildcat

Not sure of this needs, or has been, updated or not, but you can bet the liberty haters are using it. Sort of like a style guide for ‘journalists’ on how to vilify inanimate objects.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/748675/gun-violencemessaging-guide-pdf-1.pdf


5 posted on 05/25/2022 8:30:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Republican Wildcat

“Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Russia all have at least 45 percent higher rates of murder from mass public shootings than the United States.”

Can somebody help me? I’m having trouble remembering the last mass shooting from Norway or Switzerland.


6 posted on 05/25/2022 8:31:37 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: x

Remember, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.


7 posted on 05/25/2022 8:33:17 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

Have they legitimately identified a single mass shooter as a Trump supporter?

How about a Republican?


8 posted on 05/25/2022 8:36:34 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: aquila48

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-several-injured-gunshot-wounds-24679456

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/fatal-shootings-have-risen-in-sweden-despite-fall-across-europe-report-finds

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=norway+mass+shooting&t=h_&ia=web


9 posted on 05/25/2022 8:47:48 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: aquila48

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3075392/Several-people-dead-lying-outside-house-mass-shooting-north-Switzerland-town.html


10 posted on 05/25/2022 8:50:44 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: aquila48

sorry, some of those links were for Sweden and not Switzerland.


11 posted on 05/25/2022 8:51:17 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

I thought Sweden was the left utopia for all things socialists?


12 posted on 05/25/2022 9:22:39 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: aquila48

Would our media cover it????? You kNOw the answer.


13 posted on 05/25/2022 9:35:45 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: Republican Wildcat

i want to see some action after this latest tragedy

repeal the gun free zone law

they are nothing but kill zones


14 posted on 05/25/2022 9:37:26 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Another disturbing question: how many Americans are going to fall for this lie?


15 posted on 05/25/2022 9:50:45 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

We don’t have to be the worst to acknowledge that we see too many (as if some number is acceptable). That being said, most of the suggested “solutions” mainly serve partisan political goals.


16 posted on 05/25/2022 9:58:11 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: Republican Wildcat

How many home-schooled children have turned out to be mass shooters?

How many public-schooled children have turned out to be mass shooters?

Just curious.


17 posted on 05/25/2022 10:05:21 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Europe is not a peaceful place. They have massive wars at least a couple a times a century.


18 posted on 05/25/2022 10:27:32 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Leep

The democrats are working on it with their corrupt news media.

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
In the trial of Tim Hale, Biden’s DOJ just produced a large box containing an exhibit.

Prosecutors handed the box to an FBI agent who is testifying. He removed the exhibit to show to the DC jury.

It was a Trump 2020 flag.


19 posted on 05/25/2022 10:29:20 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Those rare examples you cite are on a par with what happens in Chicago every weekend.


20 posted on 05/25/2022 11:02:50 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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