Dr. John Lott talked to Stuart Varney about whether the proposed gun control regulations, such as those in Australia, would stop terrorist attacks.
(Wednesday, October 4, 2017, from 9:47 to 9:51 AM)
Media Bias on Armed Civilians Stopping Mass Public Shootings, falsely claiming civilians rarely stop mass shootings
Two days after the Oregon attack, the Associated Press opened a story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary school: with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunman.” NPR noted: “how rarely an armed...
There was a mass shooting in Australia in 2014 with the Hunt family murder / suicide (5 including the perpetrator)
Also there have still been several mass murders from other means than guns:
Snowtown murders 1992 with 12 dead
Childers Palace 2000 with 15 dead
Churchill Fire 2009 with 10 dead
Victorian Bushfires (Black Saturday) 2009 with 173 dead and 414 injured
Quakers Hill Nursing Home 2011 with 11 dead
Cairns child murders 2014 with 8 dead
Sydney family gassed 2016 with 4 dead
Melbourne Car attack 2017 with 6 dead (and 30 injured)