NPR reporters looked into the 235 shootings reported by the U.S. Department of Education and were only able to confirm 11 of them.
Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, spends much of his time researching gun use and correcting shoddy studies.
A few years ago, much of the media claimed that the U.S. has "The most mass shootings of any country in the world." Then-President Barack Obama added it's "a pattern now that has no parallel anywhere else."
The U.S. doesn't have the most mass shootings, says Lott.
When Lott's research center checked the data, using Lankford's own definition of a mass shooting-"Four or more people killed"-the center found 3,000 shootings around the world.
There was also no relationship between the rate of gun ownership in different countries and the rate of mass shootings.
If journalists had just demanded Lankford explain his study methods before touting his results, his "More mass shootings" myth would never have spread. So if Pelosi, Harris, and Warren ever follow through on their threat to declare gun violence a "National emergency," be sure to check their math.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/20/the-us-has-the-most-mass-shootings-and-other-bogus-gun-research/
Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, spends much of his time researching gun use and correcting shoddy studies.
A few years ago, much of the media claimed that the U.S. has "The most mass shootings of any country in the world." Then-President Barack Obama added it's "a pattern now that has no parallel anywhere else."
The U.S. doesn't have the most mass shootings, says Lott.
When Lott's research center checked the data, using Lankford's own definition of a mass shooting-"Four or more people killed"-the center found 3,000 shootings around the world.
There was also no relationship between the rate of gun ownership in different countries and the rate of mass shootings.
If journalists had just demanded Lankford explain his study methods before touting his results, his "More mass shootings" myth would never have spread. So if Pelosi, Harris, and Warren ever follow through on their threat to declare gun violence a "National emergency," be sure to check their math.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/20/the-us-has-the-most-mass-shootings-and-other-bogus-gun-research/
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