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Stossel TV on “The Myth of U.S. Mass Shooters”
Crime Prevention Research Center ^ | December 14, 2018

Posted on 12/15/2018 6:01:16 PM PST by rogerantone1

Dozens of news outlets reported that America has the most mass shooters in the world. Many say that shows America needs more gun control.

CNN claimed that “the U.S. has the most mass shootings”. The WSJ reported that “U.S. leads the world in mass shootings.” Nearly every major media outlet, and Former President Obama, said the same.

But the claim is based on just one study, and the author of that study, Adam Lankford, would not release his data to either John Stossel or researchers in the field.

(Excerpt) Read more at crimeresearch.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; cprc; mediabias; shootings
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1 posted on 12/15/2018 6:01:16 PM PST by rogerantone1
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Short, good video with John Lott. Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 12/15/2018 6:14:49 PM PST by TChad
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Interesting chart at the end of the article.

John Lott does good work.


3 posted on 12/15/2018 6:14:51 PM PST by Yardstick
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Reminds me of this:

Fraud in Michael Bellesiles’s Arming America
https://www.claytoncramer.com/unpublished/ArmingAmericaFraud.pdf


4 posted on 12/15/2018 6:27:34 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Bookmark.


5 posted on 12/15/2018 6:35:59 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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If Lott’s group found 3000 while Langford found only 192, it tells me Langford’s “research” was junior high quality.


6 posted on 12/15/2018 6:38:10 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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There was an earlier report that proved these claims were fake news . It cited world wide mass shootings in; Russia, Asia and Africa which did make the talk show circuit. Most of it perpetrated by Muslems.


7 posted on 12/15/2018 6:43:05 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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I am positive that those people in the media are revealing how pathetic their journalism degrees are as a credible scholarship. If they were into auto mechanics, the wheels would fall off and the doors would fly off the hinges. As a matter of fact, these yahoos should have stuck to auto mechanics at the vocational schools.


8 posted on 12/15/2018 6:48:34 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Auto mechanic? Is that supposed to be an insult?

Most of these asswads couldn’t be taught how to change a tire.


9 posted on 12/15/2018 7:15:18 PM PST by Romans Nine
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I am suggesting these journalists would have done much better if they went to vocational school where they would have at least learned something.


10 posted on 12/15/2018 7:25:41 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Refusing to share his data just screams that the research is questionable, at best. It’s not as if there is some proprietary information that must be kept confidential.

He knows darned well that his research won’t stand up to scrutiny.


11 posted on 12/15/2018 7:41:37 PM PST by susannah59
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The only vocation these so called journalists could even possibly be considered for would be picking up sh!t off the streets of San Francisco.
Even then you would have to nail the instructions onto their foreheads, in words of less than two syllables.
If I were ever told that a “journalist” had been retrained to work on my truck, I would shoot the “journalist”, then scrap the truck.


12 posted on 12/15/2018 7:49:14 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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Color me shocked that the "media" would run with a story about mass murders occurring more in the U.S. without substantiating the data from the author, or that the author, a professor would not share his data that he supposedly had compiled. Not to mention his claim for acquiring all of the data from foreign countries that most likely were not at all proficient or concerned about documenting these crimes.

Most people with half a brain would be skeptical of the claims, but then we all know that today's journalists are not blessed with a brain that is capable of critical thinking abilities. That is true regardless of the "media" outlet source. There are a few decent journalists, but they are very few in numbers in the entire world today. Thus freedom of the press is worthless anymore, because propaganda rules, not the facts.

13 posted on 12/15/2018 8:07:01 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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Well put! Journalist today are only fit for picking up San Francisco’s homeless potty off the streets and sidewalks. The problem I have is, how do you scrape the journalists off the bottom of your shoe?


14 posted on 12/15/2018 8:10:57 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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What the fake news lacks:

“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.”
Joseph Pulitzer


15 posted on 12/15/2018 8:56:56 PM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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Bookmark


16 posted on 12/15/2018 9:37:27 PM PST by Jackson Brown
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TY for putting this up. I didn’t know he had moved to YouTube. Ive always really liked his work but haven’t had a chance to watch in years. Every time I would try and record his show some other garbage, random different shows, would record. Hmmm...where did I set that tinfoil?


17 posted on 12/15/2018 10:33:19 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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Although America is not number one in mass shooters we are number one in stupid, biased liberal reporters.


18 posted on 12/16/2018 2:22:59 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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Bump for reference


19 posted on 12/16/2018 3:39:09 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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School shooting reports are inflated to include very “we think that burrito is a gun” and “there’s a loud bang, we think there’s a shooting”.

The School Shootings That Weren’t
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent


20 posted on 12/16/2018 7:19:19 AM PST by tbw2
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