Eight were murdered and 14 injured in an attack at a village in Serbia, at least nine people were murdered and seven others injured in an attack at a school in Serbia, six people were murdered at a church in Germany, and three others were murdered at a pigeon race in...
International Mass Public Shootings
A Series of Mass Public Shootings in Brazil and South Africa
These mass shootings in other countries don't get much news coverage in the US or the west. Here is an example of our earlier work (here, here, and here). Brazil, February 22, 2023: Seven people were murdered in a Brazilian pool hall massacre. . . . "The way it...
At least 36 people were murdered in an attack at a nursery school in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
This attack was worse than any school shooting in the US. Only the Bath School bombing in 1927 had more murders, with 45 people dying. Thirty-four people were murdered at the school, plus the man also murdered his wife and child at home. Thirty-seven people have been...
Another school shooting in Russia: At least 17 people dead, 24 more wounded after a 34-year-old gunman, a former student, opened fire at a school in Russia’s Izhevsk
Video of the aftermath of Izhevsk, Russia school shooting The most deadly school shooting was the Beslan School siege in Russia on September 1, 2004, which left 385 dead and another 783 wounded. At the end of this article below are a few recent attacks on...
Mass Public Shooting in Norway: 5 killed, 4 wounded
An attack with a bow and arrow in Norway left five people murdered and four wounded. These attacks in other countries get little attention. Norway has 1/61st the population of the United States. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg,...
New Research: Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing their Changes Over time: 1998 to 2017
You can download a copy of our new research available here. Please download and read it. Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United...
New Research Published at Econ Journal Watch: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries in the Rate of Public Mass Shooters
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and our research director, Professor Carlisle E. Moody, have published a new research paper at Econ Journal Watch. AbstractAdam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for 31 percent of the world’s public mass shooters over the 47...
On the Sinclair Broadcast Group: “Mass shootings in US compared with other countries”
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by Sinclair Broadcast Group about the Crime Prevention Research Center's count of mass public shootings across countries. Sinclair references Snopes.com's criticism of our work because we looked at the per capita rate of attacks across...
New Research in the journal Econ Journal Watch: “Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings?”
Dr. John Lott and our research director Professor Carl Moody have piece on what we believe has been one of the bigger academic frauds. The paper can be downloaded here. Abstract In 2016 Adam Lankford published a widely propagated article purporting to show that...
Civilian apparently cut short attack at Second Christchurch Mosque, only 7 died at that Mosque versus 41 at other one
UPDATE: The original news reports suggested that a Muslim at the Mosque had run home (presumably very nearby) to get his gun to stop the attack. Well, new reports suggest something quite different happened. There are basic inconsistencies between the two reports. The...
Twenty killed in school shooting massacre in Crimea, wounds more than 65, 10 in critical, 5 in coma described as “extremely grave”
Unless you watch the news closely you likely missed the news that a day ago there was a very deadly mass public school shooting in Crimea. It will probably be another day or so until there is a good idea how many people were killed by eighteen-year-old Vladislav...
Fact Checker Snopes.com’s big mistakes in comparing mass public shootings in the US and Europe
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...