Mass Shooting Fake News

Roy W. Spencer

While we've been led to believe that the U.S. is the mass-murder capital of the world, that's likely an urban legend:

"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."

Tim adds:

We lead the world in REPORTING of mass shootings.

I owe my existence to a mass shooting. My grandmother was in a movie house during the '20's when a guy pulled a gun and shot up the place, hitting grandma in the hand. My grandfather (who my grandmother didn't like much up to that point) came to visit her and she took a second look at him as a result.

This sort of thing has always happened, but was usually local news.

It still is in most countries, but here the media, hell-bent on gun control, reports every such incident as national news to gin up this fake notion that we are somehow barbaric.

Also, it is not primarily white males who do the mass shootings. While the overall numbers are predominantly white males - who form a majority of the population - the dirty little secret is that blacks and particularly asians form the highest percentage of mass shooters in relations to their proportion of the population. https://thenewamerican.com/inconvenient-fact-about-mass-killings-white-males-are-underrepresented-while-blacks-and-asians-are-overrepresented/ See also https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/who-are-mass-shooters-mass-shooter-demographics-part-2/ And there are more Middle Eastern shooters than MAGA killers. https://www.ammoland.com/2019/06/mass-shootings-by-the-numbers-is-a-lie/

America is full of immigrants, and one of the problems that excessive immigration will bring is crime and, drumroll please! Mass shootings. Joe Biden and the Democrats tout immigration as a panacea but this is one of the darker sides of it.

Also, when considering mass shootings, one must take into account population. The U.S. is the third most populated country on Earth. If you adjust for population the U.S. is even lower than the raw data suggests. Places like Norway, or Switzerland, have a fraction of the population as do we, and as a result the numbers of mass shootings should be much lower. That these countries are STILL higher than the U.S. illustrates that we are not in any way Killerstan. Adjust the numbers for these countries up relative to population size and you get some amazing stats.

No, the myth of American mass shootings is exactly that. It requires no draconian gun grab or special law enforcement agency to stifle the Second or First Amendments.

The fundamental point to be made about mass school shootings is that they are extraordinarily rare. If we use the FBI’s definition of a "mass shooting” incident, i.e., one where four or more people are killed, this is the pattern of mass school shootings in the 21st century:

2022: 1

2021: 1

2020: 0

2019: 0

2018: 2

2017: 1

2016: 0

2015: 1

2014: 1

2013: 1

2012: 2

2011: 0

2010: 0

2009: 0

2008: 1

2007: 1

2006: 1

2005: 1

2004: 0

2003: 0

2002: 0

2001: 0

2000: 0

So mass school shootings are rare, a total of 14 incidents in more than 22 years. In a nation of 320 million, many more people die from bee stings, lighting strikes, and so on; yet, for understandable reasons, school shootings command national attention. But their very rarity makes it hard to know what to do about them, especially since most school shooters expect to die, which makes them more or less impossible to deter. How do you prevent something that happens, in crude terms, once every 480 million man-years?

Here's the rest of the article: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/what-to-do-about-school-shootings.php

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