Obama’s inconsistency on ‘frequency’ of mass shootings in the U.S. versus other countries

Washington Post ^ | December 3, 2015 | By Michelle Ye Hee Lee

[Brad from Tennessee]

"The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently.”

–President Obama, interview that aired on CBS Evening News, Dec. 2, 2015

“With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. … I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings: This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”

--Obama, news conference at COP21 climate conference in Paris, Dec. 1, 2015

“We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.”

–Obama, statement on shootings at Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 1, 2015

“You don’t see murder on this kind of scale, with this kind of frequency, in any other advanced nation on Earth.”

–Obama, speech at U.S. Conference of Mayors, June 19, 2015

“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. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it.”

–Obama, statement on the shooting in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015. . .

[Brad from Tennessee]

Obama cherry picks "mass shooting" definitions to arrive at dramatic statistic.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I keep getting Cyrillic-like script in my posts. Does anybody know how to fix this?

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’ve gone back before hitting Post and manually replaced all the fancy double-quotes and single-quotes/apostrophes with their keyboard version.

Why Jim’s software can’t support that by default, I do not know.

[Iron Munro]

Maybe if Obama stopped bringing muslim mass killers here from Islamostan we wouldn’t have so many mass shootings.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It so often seems that the reason for the killing is the same reason that France saw such a killing.

But oh no, Barack can never “let a wind blow in an ugly direction.” Even if it was positively beckoned on by those folks!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks. I’ll try it.