Thursday, September 19, 2013
"Mass Shootings Fuel Fear, Account for Fraction of Murders"
And by fraction, it means a very small fraction.
Of course, the coverage of such is highly sensationalized and disproportionate.
Bad news sells, and the media knows that...
Of course, the coverage of such is highly sensationalized and disproportionate.
Bad news sells, and the media knows that...
AT Bloomberg.com, Annie Linsky provides some interesting statistics:
"In the 30 years through March, 78 public mass shootings occurred in the U.S. -- incidents in which four or more people were killed at random by a gunman killing indiscriminately, according to a report issued that month by the Congressional Research Service. These crimes don’t include gang-related killings or domestic disputes where a person slays relatives or other people linked to the assailant. The mass slaughters listed in the report caused the deaths of 547 people. Over the same three decades through 2012, that’s less than a tenth of 1 percent of the 559,347 people the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates were murdered in America."
