For years, we've been told that the US has more deadly mass shootings than anywhere else in the world. That's just not true.
According to researcher John R. Lott, Jr., the world's Top10 list for mass public shootings over the last 15 years are:
1) India
2) Iraq
3) Pakistan
4) Afghanistan
5) Algeria
6) Columbia
7) Nigeria
8) Philippines
9) USA
10) Sudan
Many of these nations are considered third-world, no doubt.
In it, Lott has some eye-opening statistics. For starters, in the just last 15 years of the 47-year period covered in the NYPD and Lankford reports, Lott found 1,448 mass public shootings -- and 3,081 shooters -- outside the United States. This means he discovered 15 times as many mass killers as Lankford in less than one-third the time frame.
It also means that instead of having 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings, the United States has fewer than 3 percent. The key takeaway here is that, with 4.4 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. has less than its share of mass murderers, a finding that utterly undermines the prevailing narrative.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...rica_anatomy_of_a_hyped_statistic_137960.html
According to researcher John R. Lott, Jr., the world's Top10 list for mass public shootings over the last 15 years are:
1) India
2) Iraq
3) Pakistan
4) Afghanistan
5) Algeria
6) Columbia
7) Nigeria
8) Philippines
9) USA
10) Sudan
Many of these nations are considered third-world, no doubt.
In it, Lott has some eye-opening statistics. For starters, in the just last 15 years of the 47-year period covered in the NYPD and Lankford reports, Lott found 1,448 mass public shootings -- and 3,081 shooters -- outside the United States. This means he discovered 15 times as many mass killers as Lankford in less than one-third the time frame.
It also means that instead of having 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings, the United States has fewer than 3 percent. The key takeaway here is that, with 4.4 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. has less than its share of mass murderers, a finding that utterly undermines the prevailing narrative.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...rica_anatomy_of_a_hyped_statistic_137960.html