2aguy
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And here you have anti gunners lying about the U.S. and mass shootings.......
CPRC: Worldwide Percentage of Mass Shootings in U.S. Exaggerated by 'Over 95 Percent'
Professor Carl Moody, College of William & Mary offered the following:
The assertion that the US is responsible for 31 percent of worldwide mass shooters is patently absurd. Anyone who doubts the veracity of Dr. Lott’s analysis is welcome to download, for free and in Excel format, the entire Global Terrorism Database. (Contact GTD Team). There they will find, with a simple back of the envelope calculation, that worldwide since 1970 there have been 58,445 mass firearm attacks. Of these, 402 have occurred in the United States. The US is, according to the Global Terrorism Database, responsible for less than one percent of all mass shootings (0.69 percent) since 1970. Dr. Lott’s calculations are much more carefully done, but Professor Lankford’s analysis is clearly not in the ballpark. Also, social scientists seldom have laboratories. Replication is the only way to verify claims. Any academic who refuses to share his or her data for replication purposes deserves to be shunned.
CPRC is pressing this issue both because they want accuracy in research and because Lankford’s claim that 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings occurred in the U.S. is being used as an argument against gun ownership.
CPRC: Worldwide Percentage of Mass Shootings in U.S. Exaggerated by 'Over 95 Percent'
Professor Carl Moody, College of William & Mary offered the following:
The assertion that the US is responsible for 31 percent of worldwide mass shooters is patently absurd. Anyone who doubts the veracity of Dr. Lott’s analysis is welcome to download, for free and in Excel format, the entire Global Terrorism Database. (Contact GTD Team). There they will find, with a simple back of the envelope calculation, that worldwide since 1970 there have been 58,445 mass firearm attacks. Of these, 402 have occurred in the United States. The US is, according to the Global Terrorism Database, responsible for less than one percent of all mass shootings (0.69 percent) since 1970. Dr. Lott’s calculations are much more carefully done, but Professor Lankford’s analysis is clearly not in the ballpark. Also, social scientists seldom have laboratories. Replication is the only way to verify claims. Any academic who refuses to share his or her data for replication purposes deserves to be shunned.
CPRC is pressing this issue both because they want accuracy in research and because Lankford’s claim that 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings occurred in the U.S. is being used as an argument against gun ownership.
