America: #56 in Mass Shootings
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/12/2019 6:20:23 AM
That the U.S. leads the world in mass shooting events, and that the cause is our liberal gun laws, are articles of faith on the Left. Barack Obama, for example, said: The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. This belief, while pervasive in our culture, is untrue. John Lott and Michael Weisser explode the myth, while at the same time demolishing a widely-cited but bogus “study” by one Adam Lankford: Lankford’s claim received coverage
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 5/12/2019 8:13:57 AM (No. 62121)
You can blame the Media and the Democratic party for stirring up the hate between different Americans.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/12/2019 8:20:43 AM (No. 62116)
You mean that the USA hating liberals actually lied about mass shooting? I´m shocked, shocked!
One person killed is one too many, but its the person doing the killing who is messed up. The gun is the tool of choice, they could use a knife, car, bat, rock, etc..
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Get rid of 5 Socialist cities and the country is in the bottom 10% of gun violence too...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/12/2019 8:59:04 AM (No. 62122)
There should be a system of ´Diplomas´ and ´Degrees´ for those who have traveled and seen the world.....not from the Hilton but from the streets. There is no LOVE of AMERICA to match that of an immigrant who has seen the rest of the world. I tell you this with a tear in my eye as I am one. America, at it´s worst, is still a blessing and the light and hope of the world.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
His_Highness 5/12/2019 9:31:33 AM (No. 62115)
We should keep repeating that when Venezuela ran over people with armored vehicles is when we learned that we must have and keep the 2nd Amendment, and every rifle and handgun in our safes has a purpose -- to rebuff the government when it gets totally out of control.
It´s close to that, now. It was worse 2-1/2 years ago, and it will be worse if any of those Dem buffoons running for the President win.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/12/2019 11:49:30 AM (No. 62123)
Obama the genius Muslim Mallard might be partially right ´shootings´ the magic word.
In other parts of the world it´s suicide bombers with explosives strapped to them or explosive laden trucks in market places full of people. The Muslim Boston bomber duo didn´t use guns and bullets but pressure cookers with explosives and nails for maximum effect. The left is always wrong and sees only what they want to see. They´re stupid and dumb like Obama is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/12/2019 12:04:13 PM (No. 62113)
Did it include Ruby Ridge?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/12/2019 12:22:32 PM (No. 62119)
Have you ever been on an international flight full of fellow Americans returning to the US from a third-world country? If so, you experienced the pilot announcing "we´ve now crossed into the United States" and the planeload of passengers erupting in cheers and applause.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2019 1:27:32 PM (No. 62117)
#3, you have not identified the ACTUAL cause of the higher violence in those cities. Look to demagraphics. Violence is a cultural/racial thing if you examine it in any depth.
Std description #1 is police slang for a real reason.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
saguni 5/12/2019 1:41:29 PM (No. 62120)
Just a few minutes ago, while watching one of the Sunday morning interview show, Cory Booker said something that made my blood boil, my first thought was ´I wish I could FactCheck that.
Booker said, "In the last 50 years, more people have died from gun violence in this country that in all the wars we have fought, the Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars 1 & 2, Viet Nam, the Middle East."
I "feel" that is false, it doesn´t seem possible, but it sure makes a great talking point that´s hard to refute.
But if it stands, it becomes a verified fact in the minds of the MSM audience.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/12/2019 2:25:47 PM (No. 62112)
Anyone who puts up a sign saying Gun Free Zone should be sued in the event of a shooting for inviting it to happen.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2019 2:39:51 PM (No. 62114)
#10, they intentionally lie. The most universal "gun stat" lie is to combine suicides and accidents with a gun with actual murders with a gun to massively inflate the numbers.
Total murders is around 15-17,000 per year, total suicides is around double that. By combining the two, they get to TRIPLE their claimed ´gun homicides´ or ´gun violence´ or whatever term they distort to combine the two.
The numbers I quoted above are totals, for murders it is around 2/3 with guns, with suicides, I am not sure of the percentage, but probably less than 2/3.
In any case, be assured that they intentionally combine gun accidental deaths (at a 100 year low now) and gun suicides with actual gun murders to get their lying numbers.
Murders by gun are about 3.6/100,000, accidental shooting deaths is about 0.2/100,000. Total murders are about 6/100,000.
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