On December 31 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed there were 372 mass shootings–or more than one mass shooting a day–during calendar year 2015. On the other hand, Mother Jones editor Mark Follman reported four mass shootings for the whole year and USA Today reported approximately 22.
While Democrats are pushing gun control as a solution to the San Bernardino terror attack–and to other mass shootings that were criminally motivated–Mother Jones reports over 80% of mass shooters between 1982 and 2015 bought their guns “legally.”
On December 3, Mother Jones editor Mark Follman addressed the left’s exaggerated claims of “355 mass shootings” this year and pointed out the actual number is about four.
The Guardian and The Washington Post are reporting sky-high numbers of “mass shooting” incidents in America over the past few years while scholarly studies and Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports show a very low number of incidents, relatively speaking. For example,
In a figure that is a far cry from the 207 mass shootings that CNN claimed took place in the first 207 days of 2015, Mother Jones quotes a study that claims there were approximately “90 public mass shootings” in the U.S. over a period of 46 years.
On August 1, The Economist claimed America averages one mass shooting a day, and they countered the impulse to use a gun to defend oneself from mass shooters by suggesting “the impulse to self-defense… is natural, but mistaken.”
