on August 4, 2015 in World News
Congressional Study Shows No Mass Public Shooting ‘Epidemic’
Congressional Study Shows No Mass Public Shooting ‘Epidemic’ by AWR Hawkins A Congressional Research Services (CRS) study released on July 30 is devoid of evidence to back gun control groups’ claims of an “epidemic” of “mass public shootings.” In fact, counter to claims of “207 mass shootings” in the first 207 days of 2015–a claim CNN’s Fareed Zakaria suggested is “almost literally true“–the CRS study shows an average of “21 mass shootings” annually in the US during the time period of 1999-2013. And of the most televised and widely reported type of attack–a “mass public shooting”–the CRS report found an… View Article
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