There are a lot of BS statistics making the rounds out
there about guns and gun violence today.
Apparently taking
their cue from the National Review, many gun-rights supporters have taken to social media
sites to say that the peak for mass killings in the U.S. came in 1929 and that mass
shootings are not a major concern because they're no more common than in past decades.
Come on – talk about misleading stats.
First, the Sandy Hook slaughter, with 27 dead, is at No.
2 on the list of worst school shootings in U.S. history, behind only the Virginia
Tech massacre of 2007, where 32 were killed. (These numbers include the
shooters who killed themselves.) Of the 12 most deadly school massacres in the
nation’s history, seven have occurred since the Columbine tragedy of 1999,
which has now been bumped down to No. 4 on the list.
Read more here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/conn-elementary-school-shooting-tragically-makes-list-of-worst-shooting-sprees-in-u-s-history/
Second, of the 11 deadliest shootings of any kind in the
country’s history, five have occurred since Columbine.
More details here:
Finally, among the worst school massacres in world
history, Listverse.com puts the Sandy Hook slaughter at No. 4, just behind Virginia
Tech. You can read a story here:
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