While the FBI study discusses \u201cmass shootings or killings,\u201d its graphs were filled with cases that had nothing to do with mass killings. Of the 160 cases it counted, 32 involved a gun being fired without anyone being killed. Another 35 cases involved a single murder.
\nThree-quarters of the missing cases came in the first half of the study\u2019s time period, thus again biasing the results toward finding a larger increase over time.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to see how the FBI can count these incidents, which make up 42 percent of its 160 cases, as \u201cmass killings.\u201d They plainly don\u2019t fit the FBI\u2019s old definition, which required four or more murders, nor even its new one of at least three murders.<\/p>\n
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For example, in 2010, the FBI reports that there were 29 of these active shooter cases, but just nine involved more than a single fatality.<\/p>\n
The FBI study also ignored 20 out of what should have been a total of 113 cases where at least two people were killed.<\/p>\n
For example, it missed a 2001 shooting at a Chicago bar that left two dead and 21 wounded, as well as a 2004 Columbus, Ohio, attack at a concert that left four dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to John Lott, the author of “More Guns, Less Crime”, who wrote the Post’s article, the report skewed the numbers by starting in 2000, a year with a low number of mass shootings. The report left out incidents in the early years to show a huge increase by the time of the study’s end in 2013 from 1 incident in 2000 to 17 in 2013. I don’t suppose that the FBI wrote this report for political reasons. But I’m sure we’ll hear about the report in the months after the mid-term elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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