Thursday, December 20, 2018
Stossel TV on "The Myth of U.S. Mass Shooters"
I found this article about mass shooters on the Crime Prevention Research Center website:
"CNN claimed that 'the U.S. has the most mass shootings'. The WSJ reported that 'U.S. leads the world in mass shootings.' Nearly every major media outlet, and Former President Obama, said the same. But the claim is based on just one study, and the author of that study, Adam Lankford, would not release his data to either John Stossel or researchers in the field. Economist John Lott says that Lankford’s study has many flaws (our research and data can be downloaded here and data over more years is here). Lankford claimed to find 'complete data' for all mass shootings in 171 countries from 1966 to 2012. But Lott notes that in Lankford’s paper, he doesn’t specify basic details about how he found shootings in so many countries — most of which don’t speak English — before the internet."
