FACT: 98% Of ALL Mass Shootings Are In 'Gun Free Zones' Should We Get Rid Of Them?

[xfrodobagginsx]

FACT: 98% Of ALL Mass Shootings Are In 'Gun Free Zones' Should We Get Rid Of Them? The reason that they occur in those zones is because the killer knows that the other people can't defend their selves.

 

[cowslinger64]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/actors-gun-facts-2/

Since 1950, nearly all mass public shootings have occurred in gun-free zones.


UNPROVEN

The source of the claim is an analysis by the pro-gun rights economist John Lott and his nonprofit group, the Crime Prevention Research Center.


Lott’s analysis of mass shootings from 1950 to 1997 is messy, to say the least. It consists of an academic study of the general correlation between the restrictiveness of gun control laws and the prevalence of mass shooting deaths from 1977 to 1997, rather than an assessment of the gun regulations in place at the site of each individual incident.

It’s not clear where exactly the evidence for 1950 to 1976 can be found. Lott directed us to a list of mass shootings during the period in question which was part of a New York Times investigation in 2000, but it included no breakdown of the salient regulations on gun possession and use at the location and time of each incident. Without this information, no conclusions can be made about the prevalence of “gun-free zones” in mass shootings from 1950-1976.

In light of this paucity of detail, we’ll turn to the period since 1998, for which Lott did provide case-by-case detail.

His analysis concluded that 59 out of 64 mass shootings (92.2 percent) between 1998 and 2018 took place in a “gun-free zone” — public locations where, roughly speaking, it was not legal for civilians to carry even licensed firearms.

We found that between 1998 and 2018, out of 62 relevant mass shooting events (under the former FBI definition used by Lott) only 24 verifiably took place in gun-free zones as defined by Lott. That’s 39 percent, a far cry from the percentages claimed by Lott and in the video. Twenty-one mass shootings (34 percent) took place in locations that were verifiably not gun-free zones at the time of the shooting. One mass shooting took place in two locations, only one of which is known to have been a gun-free zone. You can download our analysis here.

 

[adrina]

Go back to preaching.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/10/do-98-percent-of-mass-public-shootings-happen-in-gun-free-zones/

You take as nuanced view of this as you do of religion.

Filth.

 

[nowisthetime]

PSEUDO-Religious nutjob. Why are you on a site full of titties and ass?

It's not solely about the guns, it's the entitlement of loser and depraved males like your ilk.


Look at most of these shooters, dorky looking, no pussy game, lowly, bobbing Adam's Apple, ugly fucktards...mad at the world.


How about the country starts monitoring these nutjobs like they do with black and brown men?



How about that?

 

[Epheme]

It's not that gun-free zones are a problem. The shooter in CA recently purchased his guns in Nevada, whose gun laws are far less stringent than CA gun laws. Guns in Illinois come from pretty much any surrounding state. I'd rather see uniform gun laws before getting rid of gun-free zones.

 

[Wrong Element]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and surmise that a Wal-Mart in Texas is probably NOT a gun-free zone.

 

[RoryN]

Damn. Nice smack-down, people.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Name some mass shootings that have not occurred in Gun Free Zones....AND GO!!!!

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and surmise that a Wal-Mart in Texas is probably NOT a gun-free zone.

WRONG...It WAS a Gun Free Zone.

 

[4est_Trump]

Name some mass shootings that have not occurred in Gun Free Zones....AND GO!!!!

El Paso Walmart.

That was easy.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

El Paso Walmart.

That was easy.

I just said that the El Paso Wallmart, WAS a Gun Free Zone. Just because it's in Texas doesn't mean it wasn't in a Gun Free Zone.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-ne...s-gun-free-zones-deaths-el-paso-mass-shooting

 

[Kantarii]

Are you considering Walmart a gun free zone? I mean they sell them inside the store and a carry/ conceal permit allows people to carry them inside the store in some States.

 

[Kantarii]

WRONG...It WAS a Gun Free Zone.

A true gun free zone would be a school, courthouse, and the like.

Jesus, some people really need to read up on the conceal & carry laws.

 

[4est_Trump]

I just said that the El Paso Wallmart, WAS a Gun Free Zone. Just because it's in Texas doesn't mean it wasn't in a Gun Free Zone.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-ne...s-gun-free-zones-deaths-el-paso-mass-shooting

Oh, You said?

Well then, carry on with your derp, dildobaggins.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

FACT: 98% Of ALL Mass Shootings Are In 'Gun Free Zones' Should We Get Rid Of Them? The reason that they occur in those zones is because the killer knows that the other people can't defend their selves.

FACT: 99% of America is a 'Gun Free Zone'

So where the fuck else are they going to occur?