This is a post from the Trump thread.
I ran across a great article today.
We are in a journalism freefall where activists use the platform for a manufactured narrative and people accept it as truth.
The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings
The Dominant Narrative
"Let's be clear,” President Obama said in 2015 after a shooting in North Carolina. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries."
Sen. Harry Reid echoed this sentiment. "The United States is the only advanced country where this kind of mass violence occurs.”
Media headlines have left little doubt that the US leads the world in mass shootings. In fact, according to CNN, it isn’t even close.
The comments and data seem to conclusively say that the US leads the world in mass shootings and the violence is unique, a product of “America’s gun culture.”
It’s a slam dunk case except for one thing: it’s not true.
Norway and Serbia is way out ahead of the U.S. If you read the article it has this to say:
If this is true, how did the narrative that the US leads the world in mass shootings become the conventional wisdom? The myth, it turns out, stems from University of Alabama associate professor Adam Lankford.
Lankford’s name pops up in a montage of media reports which cite his research as evidence that America leads the world in mass shootings. The violence, Lankford said, stems from the high rate of gun ownership in America.
“The difference between us and other countries, [which] explains why we have more of these attackers, was the firearm ownership rate,” Lankford said. “In other words: firearms per capita. We have almost double the firearm ownership rate of any other country.”
Lankford’s findings show that there were 90 mass public shooters in America since 1966, the most in the world, which had a total of 202. But Lott, using Lankford’s definition of a mass shooting—“four or more people killed”—found more than 3,000 such shootings, John Stossel recently reported.
This part of the article links to another article where the 3,000 shootings is further explained:
The US ‘Has the Most Mass Shootings’—and Other Bogus Gun Research
When Lott’s research center checked the data, using Lankford’s own definition of a mass shooting—“four or more people killed”—the center found 3,000 shootings around the world. Lankford claimed there were only 202.
Lankford said he excludes “sponsored terrorism,” but does not define what he means by that. To be safe, Lott removed terrorism cases from his data. He still found 709 shootings—more than triple the number Lankford reported.
It turns out that not only did the U.S. not have the most frequent mass shootings, it was No. 62 on the list, lower than places like Norway, Finland, and Switzerland.
There was also no relationship between the rate of gun ownership in different countries and the rate of mass shootings.
What's really to be noticed here is that the guy, Lankford, excludes "sponsored terrorism" I'm willing to bet that the various Muslim mass shootings which are the most lethal are included in the U.S. stats. I mean to say that I bet he excludes these from the global stats but would include the Florida nightclub shooting in the U.S. stats in order to skew them to his narrative.
The progressive left is all about taking away our amendments. Gun violence plummets when gun ownership rises.
The best thing the U.S. could do would be to implement mandatory laws requiring people to take gun safety courses where they learn to shoot, clean and care for guns. Also, by encouraging the populace to be armed and allowing them to carry. Violence by guns would plummet and crime would follow suit.
But, you'll notice that progressives use National crisis moments to usurp and implement their government overreach agendas. FDR and the Depression, LBJ and the Kennedy assassination, Obama and the Mortgage Meltdown...today they're busy with the chaos merchant stories of the world ending in 12 years and systemic institutionalized racism and out of control gun violence.