No, the United States Doesn’t Lead the World in Mass Shootings

[Revmitchell]

As expected, Democrats immediately began politicizing the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Quite a few of them even blamed Trump. Like clockwork, calls for more gun control have commenced. Democrats are even trying to pressure Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate recess so they can vote on gun control.

A common myth you can expect to hear a lot in the coming days and weeks is that the United States “leads the world in mass shootings” and therefore we must pass some law that will do nothing to stop future mass shootings, but will infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

What you might not hear is that this claim is completely bogus.

Sure, if you following conservative media, you’re probably aware of this. Townhall, The Daily Signal, Bearing Arms, FEE, The Washington Examiner, and others have all previously reported on how the myth that the United States leads the world in mass shootings is based on a deeply flawed study, which has been debunked by the Crime Prevention Research Center.

No, the United States Doesn’t Lead the World in Mass Shootings

 

[Rolfe]

Refusal to share data and the methods used to gather it makes it suspicious at minimum (something to hide, incompetence, etc.?). Lankford appears to make a conclusion that fits a narrative, rather than one based on facts.

 

[Agent47]

As expected, Democrats immediately began politicizing the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Quite a few of them even blamed Trump. Like clockwork, calls for more gun control have commenced. Democrats are even trying to pressure Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate recess so they can vote on gun control.

A common myth you can expect to hear a lot in the coming days and weeks is that the United States “leads the world in mass shootings” and therefore we must pass some law that will do nothing to stop future mass shootings, but will infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

What you might not hear is that this claim is completely bogus.

Sure, if you following conservative media, you’re probably aware of this. Townhall, The Daily Signal, Bearing Arms, FEE, The Washington Examiner, and others have all previously reported on how the myth that the United States leads the world in mass shootings is based on a deeply flawed study, which has been debunked by the Crime Prevention Research Center.

No, the United States Doesn’t Lead the World in Mass Shootings

not peer reviewed, and is published on Lott’s website and Reddit.

And it’s from this cave that he attacks Lankford’s whose work is published in peer reviewed journal, Violence and Victims, and indexed by US Library of Medicine.

Next is a claim on page 6 about Solomon Islands for killings between 2000 and 2002 from which he concludes their mass shooting rate is 47 times higher than the US while conveniently forgetting to tell you of civil war during those years that ended in 2003.

On his list the first one is North Mariana Island which is US Commonwealth!

He includes gang and drug violence as already debunked by WaPo.

I could go on but such posts make me forget Alex Jones