Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. America doesn’t actually lead the world in mass shootings
The Left, since Barack Obama quoted him, is in love with a study by Adam Lankford. But he refuses to release his data.
So since Lankford wouldn't share, people tried to recreate his study. There were problems. Like lack of reliable data for parts of the world during 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. But the Crime Prevention Research Center could find data for 1998 to 2012.
Lankford’s data grossly undercount foreign attacks. We found 1,423 attacks outside the United States. Looking at just a third of the time Lankford studied, we still found 15 times as many shooters.
Even when we use coding choices that are most charitable to Lankford, such as excluding any cases of insurgencies or battles over territory, his estimate of the US share of shooters falls from 31 percent to 1.43 percent. It also accounts for 2.1 percent of murders, and 2.88 percent of their attacks. All these are much less than the United States’ 4.6 percent share of the population.
There is more and you should click thru.
The media should be wary of any researchers who fail to let others look at their data. At least on this point, the intellectual base for liberal thunder about mass public shootings is wrong.
Don't clutter the issue with facts! The Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) don't care about facts. This is the 21st Century. It is all about FEELINGS.
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