{"id":60051,"date":"2016-06-13T05:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T23:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/?p=60051"},"modified":"2017-04-06T03:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:49:28","slug":"six-things-americans-know-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/six-things-americans-know-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things Americans should know about mass shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frederic Lemieux<\/a>, George Washington University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

America has experienced yet another mass shooting. This time at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida<\/a>. It is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

As a criminologist, I have reviewed recent research in hopes of debunking some of the common misconceptions I hear creeping into discussions that spring up whenever a mass shooting occurs.<\/p>\n

#1: More guns don\u2019t make you safer<\/h2>\n

A study<\/a> I conducted on mass shootings indicated that this phenomenon is not limited to the United States.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings also took place in 25 other wealthy nations between 1983 and 2013, but the number of mass shootings in the United States far surpasses that of any other country included in the study during the same period of time.<\/p>\n

The US had 78 mass shootings during that 30-year period.<\/p>\n

The highest number of mass shootings experienced outside the United States was in Germany \u2013 where seven shootings occurred.<\/p>\n

In the other 24 industrialized countries taken together, 41 mass shootings took place.<\/p>\n

In other words, the US had nearly double the number of mass shootings than all other 24 countries combined in the same 30-year period.<\/p>\n