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« Thoughts on the Confederate flag controversy | Main | NFA firearm scam warning »

John Lott goes to town on mass killing claim

Posted by David Hardy · 24 June 2015 10:28 PM

at New York Daily News, he goes into the claim that the US has such a high rate of mass slayings.

"Norway had the highest annual death rate, with two mass public shooting fatalities per million people. Macedonia had a rate of 0.38, Serbia 0.28, Slovakia 0.20, Finland 0.14, Belgium 0.14, and the Czech Republic 0.13. The U.S. comes in eighth with 0.095 mass public shooting fatalities per million people, with Austria close behind.

"To see this isn't just a problem for the U.S. or a few small countries, Obama doesn't need to look any further than reports released by his own State Department. Between 2007 and 2011, there were an average of 6,282 terrorist attacks per year outside of Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S. The number of people killed, injured or kidnapped averaged more than 27,000 per year.

On Friday, Obama claimed once again that, "You don't see murder on this kind of scale, with this kind of frequency, in any other advanced nation on Earth."

Among developed countries, however, the U.S. isn't anywhere close to having the highest homicide rate. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the arbiter of which countries are considered industrialized, ranks Russia and Brazil far ahead of the U.S., with homicide rates that are respectively 21/2 to five times higher than ours. Our rate was tied with Chile's, and just slightly above the average for developed countries."

Here is the take of Politifact, not exactly a pro-gun site. They rate the claim as "mostly false."

Hat tip to Alice Beard.

2 Comments | Leave a comment

Granny Grunch | June 25, 2015 4:51 AM | Reply

The liberals,the stoners, (liberal stoners?)because they have the little piece missing from their brains, will be unable to see the logic,here, and won't except the facts. The truth is glaring at them....and they can go **** themselves.

Geoff | June 25, 2015 6:37 PM | Reply

The lefties always refer ONLY to deaths by gun and ignore all other forms of murder and killing to make it look bad for the U.S.
Look at China, mass killing by knife and other pointy things. Taking away the guns does not stop evil from killing.

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