U.S. Outlier in Mass Public Shooting Events, or Singular Mass Shooters?

AmmoLand ^ | 6 May, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

International Firearms Ownership and Homicides

In 2016 Adam Lankford of the University of Alabama, published a paper examining the distribution of mass shooting/mass shooters around the world. The published result concluded the United States had a disproportionate number of these rare events.  Lankford's study showed the United States had 5% of the world's population, but 31% of the the mass shootings/mass shooters, as defined by Lankford.  It has become clear that Lankford was looking almost exclusively at single perpetrators, though he included about 2% where two people were involved. Lankford excluded terrorist attacks he identified as “sponsored” terrorism, but included some terrorist attacks.

John Lott questioned Lankford's finding based on the definitions used in the paper, which treated mass shootings and mass shooters as equivalents, although it was not precisely clear which definition was of a higher priority.

There is a discussion by both sides featured in Econ Journal Watch from March of 2019. Here is a link to John Lott's and Carlisle E. Moody's critique and Adam Lankford's reply.

Lott and Carlisle's critique relies heavily on definitions. They show, if the definition used by the FBI in its 2014 active shooter report, referenced by Lankford, is rigorously followed, then Lankford's paper is misleading about mass public shootings in the rest of the world. They agree the United States has more single perpetrator public mass shootings than other parts of the world. They show many other parts of the world have many more public mass shootings than the United States, with multiple perpetrators. One of Lott and Carlisle's critiques is that Lankford refused to release the data his study is based upon.

[marktwain]

Focusing on mass public shootings is a way to push public disarmament.

More guns does not mean more homicides or suicides.

[Uncle Miltie]

Impossible because islam.

[G Larry]

Most all are in gun free zones, with the notable exception of the Las Vegas massacre....which we still know little about. WHY?

[a fool in paradise]

There were mass shootings in the 60s and yet the media reaction was different.

[backwoods-engineer]

Why is a gun banner being supported in our University of Alabama?

[2CAVTrooper]

“Why is a gun banner being supported in our University of Alabama?”

Yeah, I would have figured something like this would have come out of the more liberal Auburn University.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The first “Official” mass murder was in 1949 New Jersey.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/

However, if you really study the past you will find mass killings and serial killers going back to the 1700s, including the first school house massacre in 1764 Pennsylvania.
http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/Enoch.html

And in Canada to the north...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/deadly-shootings-schools-canada-1.3416685

[shanover]

This Lankford is a POS whose study,model and conclusions are false,misleading and cherry picked just as ,ironically,the models for the Corona Virus and “Climate Change”. Lankford and his ilk can FOAD!