{"id":296811,"date":"2017-02-27T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lies-about-mass-shootings\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:49:07","slug":"lies-about-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lies-about-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies About Mass Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from part of Dr. John Lott\u2019s interview with America\u2019s 1st Freedom:<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a title=\"It\u2019s likely nobody anywhere has done more research on, or knows more about, mass shootings than researcher John Lott.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americas1stfreedom.org\/articles\/2017\/2\/23\/john-lott-qa-antigun-lies-about-mass-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s likely nobody anywhere has done more research on, or knows more about, mass shootings than researcher John Lott.<\/a> Author of the recent book\u00a0<em>The War On Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies<\/em>, Lott is also head of the Crime Prevention Research Center, an organization dedicated to providing an\u00a0objective and accurate scientific evaluation of both the costs and benefits of gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>We recently posed a handful of questions to Lott to learn the truth about mass shootings that the so-called \u201cmainstream\u201d media won\u2019t report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A1F Daily: Last year, President Barack Obama claimed, \u201cWe are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency.\u201d And that has become kind of a rallying cry among anti-gun advocates. What does your research show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/silver-bullion-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=silverprices\">Current Prices on popular forms of Silver Bullion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lott:<\/strong>\u00a0It is completely false. And Obama repeated this claim many times. For example, last year he flatly claimed: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen in other advanced countries. It\u2019s not even close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To gun control advocates, if the U.S. would only adopt the types of gun control laws that exist in other countries, this problem would supposedly go away. Hillary Clinton made this explicit when she said mass public shootings \u201care rooted in the much too readily available weapons of mass killings, usually assault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in just 2015, France\u2014a country with one-fifth the population of the United States\u2014had more casualties from mass public shootings than the U.S. had during the entire eight years of the Obama presidency (532 versus 527). And, of course, mass public shootings in France have occurred regularly over the years. All the weapons used in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/02\/no_author\/lies-mass-shootings\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from part of Dr. John Lott\u2019s interview with America\u2019s 1st Freedom: It\u2019s likely nobody anywhere has done more research on, or knows more about, mass shootings than researcher John Lott. Author of the recent book\u00a0The War On Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, Lott is also head of the Crime Prevention Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}