“But we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn’t happen in other advanced countries. It’s not even close. And as I’ve said before, somehow we’ve become numb to it and we start thinking that this is normal.” –President Obama, announcing his new executive orders on guns, January 7, 2016 (Emphasis added.)
This claim is simply not true. …
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Here are a couple simple graphs using Google Trends to show web searches for the term “concealed carry.” After each of these three terrorist attacks over the last 90 days, you can see a sudden increase in interest for concealed carry. With each attack, the size of the increase in interest has gotten larger.…
…“… obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. I mean, Nancy, I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries. You know, we are rightly determined to prevent terrorist attacks wherever they occur, whether in the United States or with friends and allies like France.
DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier on 60 Minutes about active shooters — “If you’re in a position to try to take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.” Yet, according to Emily Miller, the chief investigative reporter for Fox News Channel 5 in DC, DC has only granted 45 concealed handgun permits.…
A mass public shooting in Saudi Arabia left 5 dead and 9 injured. From the Guardian newspaper:
…A gunman shot and killed five people in an Islamic State-claimed attack on a Shia meeting hall in Saudi Arabia before being shot dead by police, said Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV.
Friday’s deadly assault will raise tensions in the kingdom’s largely Shia eastern province, a focus of the Sunni militants who view them as apostates worthy of death.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has just released a new report titled: CRS Mass Murder with Firearms Incidents and Victims 1999-2013. USA Today’s headline provides a typical reaction: “Report: Mass public shootings on rise.” While the report points to increases in the number of shooting incidents over this period of time, the CRS does not discuss whether any of these results are statistically significant. …
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Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI’s definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to include gang and other criminal activity. Curbing gang violence is important, and it could be done pretty simply: stop enforcing the laws or legalize drugs. …
1) In his address to the nation after the Planend Parenthood attack, Obama claimed: “I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings: This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”
Senator Harry Reid made a similar statement on June 23rd: “The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs. …
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We have previously pointed out how mass public shooting after mass public shooting keep occurring where guns are banned. Here is yet another case of these killers avoiding places where people with guns might be able to stop their killing spree. From the Associated Press:
…Last week, while they were drinking in the back of Scriven’s house, Roof blurted out his plan about carrying out a mass shooting at the College of Charleston.
John Lott joined Larry O’Connor on Thursday, June 11th to discuss the errors in the FBI study on public shootings that came shortly before last November’s election (5:07 to 5:14 PM).
