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The US is neither the nation with the highest death rate, nor frequency of mass shootings. In fact, compared with European nations, the US isn’t among the top ten.  As expected, Democrats lie and the MSM let the get away with it.

“1) In his address to the nation after the Planned Parenthood attack, Obama claimed:  “I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings: This just doesn’t happen in other countries.

Senator Harry Reid made a similar statement on June 23rd: “The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs.  Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. … We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons.

We prefer not to make purely cross-sectional comparisons, but this claim is simply not true.  The data below looks at the period of time from the beginning of the Obama administration in January 2009 until the end of 2015.  Mass public shootings – defined as four or more people killed in a public place, and not in the course of committing another crime, and not involving struggles over sovereignty.  The focus on excluding shootings that do not involve other crimes (e.g., gang fights or robberies) has been used from the original research by Lott and Landes to more recently the FBI.  We cover the period from the beginning of the Obama administration to the current date, from 2009 to the Charleston massacre (this matches the starting period for another recent study we did on US shootings and we chose that because that was the starting point that Bloomberg’s group had picked).  The cases were complied doing a news search.  The starting year was picked simply because it was the beginning of the Obama administration and it matched the time frame of a recent Bloomberg report (a report that we evaluated here).  A comparison across the entire world is available here.”

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“Some people have defended President Obama’s statement by pointing to the word “frequency.”  But, even if one puts it in terms of frequency, the president’s statement is still false, with the US ranking 12th compared to European countries.

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https://crimeresearch.org/2015...n-the-us-and-europe/ 

NEVER, NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT TO TELL THE TRUTH!  ITS NOT WHO THEY ARE!

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Even with our drug gang problems, the US rates 83rd in murders per capita or 107th depending on the organization's source material:

https://www.indexmundi.com/fac...IHR.PSRC.P5/rankings

https://www.pri.org/stories/20...highest-murder-rates

It might also be noted that “not all high homicide areas are associated with a high prevalence of firearm homicide.”---https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/map-here-are-countries-worlds-highest-murder-rates

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Americans Think Violent Games, Movies Lead to Violence

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Most Americans continue to believe that what we watch and what we play are making America a more hostile place.

The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on February 21-22, 2018 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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