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On Oregon’s KMED: Discussing Errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports

Aug 21, 2023 | Radio

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Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Meyer on Medford, Oregon’s KMED-AM about our work on the defensive gun use cases that the FBI’s Active Shooting reports has missed.

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New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

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We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...