Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings? A Comment on Adam Lankford

Volume: 16, Issue: 1
Published: Jan 1, 2019
Abstract
In 2016 Adam Lankford published a widely propagated article purporting to show that during a 47-year period the United States represented 31 percent of worldwide public mass shooters, and claiming that the outsized U.S. percentage is a result of gun prevalence. We examined the data from 1998 to 2012 and found that, although the U.S. has 4.5 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. represents less than three percent of worldwide mass shooting...
Paper Details
Title
Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings? A Comment on Adam Lankford
Published Date
Jan 1, 2019
Volume
16
Issue
1
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