Personally, I don’t care where the United States ranks for mass shootings in the world. There are more important questions to ask about mass shootings in the United States than, “Wait, wait, but how do we compare with Yemen?”
It’s just another example of asking the wrong question and arriving at a dishonest answer in order to make a subset of our population feel good. Do you think that they’re going to analyze a study that tells them something that makes their toes squiggle?
I am just shocked at the North Mariana Islands… Number 4 on the list… 4 victims out of a population of about 55K resulting in 4.000 victims per population of 100K… What could have happened to move the North Mariana Islands to number 4 on the list…
Of course, that’s where it gets tricky, and I don’t have a blanket answer. We call some groups terrorists, despite an ongoing, military-style conflict with another group. In one case, we say, “Oh, they’re terrorists,” and count it as a mass shooting. In another case, we might say, “Well, this group is composed of military combatants,” and we don’t.
I don’t know the answer, but I can easily see how data can be fudged in one way or another based upon the classification being used.
I look at these Terrorism accounts two ways. One way is a definite militaristic component. The other way…i look at it in much the same way as street gang violence. No different than in Chicago or LA. The former I would not include…the latter I would.
I recommend the first tab, Foreign Cases_1448, try sorting by number killed, largest to smallest, and then look at the Summary column… The top row after this data ordering…