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Mass Shootings Aren’t an ‘Epidemic’

    Criminology Professor to CNN’s Tapper: Mass Shootings Aren’t an ‘Epidemic’ On Thursday’s The Lead on CNN, James Allen Fox used actual crime data to splash cold water on a liberal talking point claiming that mass shootings on the rise: “It’s a horrific event when four, five, twelve people are gunned down…But let’s not think that this is an epidemic.” Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University, also pointed out that the now-expired “assault weapons” had little impact on the number of mass shootings. Anchor Jake Tapper wondered “what does society need to do” to prevent such events from… View Article