{"id":83717,"date":"2018-12-24T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83717"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:01","slug":"bias-against-guns-or-liars-on-the-left-mass-shootings-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83717","title":{"rendered":"Bias against Guns or Liars on the Left … mass shootings myth."},"content":{"rendered":"

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CNN claimed that “the U.S. has the most mass shootings”. The WSJ reported that “U.S. leads the world in mass shootings.” Nearly every major media outlet and former President Obama said the same. But the claim is based on just one study, and the author of that study, Adam Lankford, would not release his data to other gun reseachers in the field.<\/p>\n

Economist John Lott argues that Lankford’s study has many flaws. Lott is the author of the books \u201cMore Guns, Less Crime\u201d and \u201cBias against Guns.\u201d His son, Maxim Lott, works for Stossel TV. Stossel says because of that, he repeatedly asked Lankford to show him the study data that he would not reveal to Lott. But Lankford would not disclose it to Stossel either.<\/p>\n

Lankford claimed to find “complete data” for all mass shootings in 171 countries from 1966 to 2012. But Lott notes that Lankford doesn\u2019t reveal basic details about how he found shootings in so many countries — most of which don\u2019t speak English. And most of those years, those countries didn\u2019t have the internet.<\/p>\n