PolitiFact: Obama Lied His Ass Off About “Mass Violence” In Other Countries
V. Saxena
June 23, 2015
While speaking about the Charleston massacre on June 18, President Obama alleged that “this type of mass violence does not happen in other advances countries — it doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”
According to PolitiFact, he lied.
While the United States does rank in the top one-third when it comes to mass shootings (0.15 mass shooting fatalities per 100,000 people), Norway (1.3), Finland (0.34) and Switzerland (1.7) all outrank us.
“The data shows that it clearly happens in other countries, and in at least three of them, there’s evidence that the rate of killings in mass-shooting events occurred at a higher per-capita rate than in the United States between 2000 and 2014,” the folks at PolitiFact concluded.
Mind you, Twitchy reported that the data PolitiFact relied on to reach its conclusion “doesn’t include every example of mass killings — just those committed by firearms, even though mass stabbings are not uncommon in such places as China.”
It also “doesn’t include acts generally considered to be terrorism, such as the attack in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.”
Had terrorist attacks been included in the data, the United States would have likely ranked even lower.
Note also that according to The Guardian, Norway “has some of the toughest firearm legislation in the world.”
That legislation, however, surely didn’t stop Anders Breivik …
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