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Bret Baier’s Special Report discusses the CPRC’s research on Mass Public Shootings

Dec 5, 2015 | Featured

Media Discussion on CPRC

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More detailed information on the numbers used by Bret Baier on Fox News are available here, here, and here.  Peter Docey did make one mistake in discussing our research.  We were not subtracting off terrorist attacks from the totals.

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