The Truth About Mass Shootings

Real Clear Policy ^ | January 13, 2024 | John R. Lott Jr.

[rogerantone1]

When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,” President Joe Biden claimed last year. After a mass murder in Lewiston, Maine in late October, CNN said that there had already been “586 mass shootings” that year.

[rktman]

More info at this site from 1998-2023. I.E. branDUHn, as usual, is full of 💩.

crimeresearch.org/2024/01/updated-information-on-mass-public-shootings-from-1998-through-october-2023/?fbclid=IwAR0HDgcRU8F3IV5hAKvqwU_Jb7D15x9pWPdI3nYi1fHsobpPKG3qMrjfGuU

[jerod]

The sensible cure for mass shootings... More guns, more training, more bullets.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

98% OF MASS-SHOOTINGS OCCUR IN GUN-FREE ZONES

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ABOLISH GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONES

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FACT: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. 98+% of the time the gun is not fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.

SOURCE: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, pages 21, 83.

FACT: 98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones

SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo

SOURCE: https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/how-we-stopped-mass-murderers-time-after-time/

[MileHi]

FTA:

“Conflating Uvalde with armed robberies or fights over drug turf doesn’t make sense, but it does create inflated numbers that can be used to scare and mislead people. Mass public shootings are very rare, and it’s much rarer still for them to be committed by rifle-toting white supremacists.”

Biden is a liar.

[zeestephen]

Thank you for posting - great link.

For more than a decade at Free Republic, I have been pointing out that the FBI Crime Statistics define a Mass Shooting as - minimum four dead, no other crime, not gang or domestic related.

That definition has been completely corrupted - for political purposes - by the MSM and the Democratic Party.

The author also points out that the definition of "white" gun murderers has also been completely corrupted.

The US Census Bureau classifies most North African and Middle East immigrants as white.

Also, most USA law enforcement agencies allow Hispanics to self-identify as white.

When exclusively white Euro-American gun murderers are compared to white European gun murderers, the results are remarkably similar...

White Euro-American gun murderers: 2.5 per 100,000.

White European gun murderers: 0.5 per 100,000

When you consider how strict European gun laws are, those numbers are remarkable.

One final anti-white bias in USA gun murder statistics...

The ethnicity of gun murderers is not reported unless the case has been cleared. "Cleared" means that at least one person was indicted or prosecuted for murder.

In the USA, about 80% of white murders are cleared, about 60% of Hispanic murders are cleared, and about 40% of Black murders are cleared.

In other words, white gun murderers are identified 2X times more often than Black gun murderers, and 33% more often than Hispanic gun murderers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Interesting how few mass shootings there was before the mental institutions were closed down in the 1970s. semi-auto rifles had been on the market since 1903. Yes, 1903!

When the institutions were closed down and the crazies dumped on the streets mass killings began to go up like a rocket.
Had the hospitals been open and the standards of the 1950s for incarceration been in place almost all the mass killers would have been in a padded room before they went on a killing spree.

[PLMerite]

bump for later

[NorthMountain]

In the USA, about 80% of white murders are cleared, about 60% of Hispanic murders are cleared, and about 40% of Black murders are cleared.

And about 13% of Chicongo murders are cleared ...

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