Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings.
While Americans are rightly concerned by the increased frequency and severity of mass public shootings, the rest of the world is experiencing much larger increases in per capita rates of attack. The frequency of foreign mass public shootings since 1998 has grown 291 percent faster than in the U.S.
Youâd never believe this to be the case listening to the histrionics of the Anti Gunners and Mainstream US Media.
âŚand yet another school shooting just yesterday, in a California gun free zone. Now ask, was an âassault weaponâ used? This problem isnât with the weapon, itâs with the shooter and their history of what brought them to this point. Mental health needs to be examined and addressed. I donât know the answer but thatâs the problem.
I find fault with their data they only sourced 50 mass shooting in America from 1998 - 2015.
but I bet the pro-gun author of âThe war on gunsâ doesnât have an agenda and conduct this study scientifically.
The problem is in what you count and the terminology used.
When the media reports a âmass shootingâ itâs always a case where the shooter is just shooting whoever they can in a random opportune fashion.
But when they count up mass shootings they include things like gang violence.
The problem isnât their number. Itâs in that they only use the terminology for one type of shooting, but count many other types to increase the tally.
If you limit the shootings to only be the type they report on, random shootings of innocents, the number is drastically different.
The Authors of both studies are bias one is done by a person who think there is a war on guns and the other is done by someone who think guns are the issue.
they created the studies to prove their per-existing point which is the opposite of science
The facts are that when you remove the two areas where we have the most deaths from gun violence per capita, the US looks pretty good. When you leave them in, we are one of 6 american countries that contribute to 1/2 of all the gun deaths in the world per capita.
Yeah I really need to look at how theyâre determining these numbers. Like what they removed in counts from the US and what they left in for other countries.
