Mass Shootings by the Real Numbers

by Frank Miniter,

A new research paper titled “How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings” by John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center could do the same thing to Adam Lankford, who is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama.

“I have never seen academic research that is so completely wrong,” said Lott, after completing his 437-page study of mass shootings all over the world. “I have rarely run into an academic who has refused to answer even the most basic questions. Even when we use coding choices that are most charitable to Lankford, his 31 percent estimate of the U.S.’s share of world mass public shootings is cut by over 95 percent. By our count, the U.S. makes up less than 1.43 percent of the mass public shooters, 2.11 percent of their murders and 2.88 percent of their attacks. All these are much less than the U.S.’s 4.6 percent share of the world population. Attacks in the U.S. are not only less frequent than in other countries, they are also much less deadly on average.”

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