{"id":23896,"date":"2016-06-28T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23896"},"modified":"2016-06-28T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:55:36","slug":"graph-of-the-day-mass-shootings-more-common-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23896\/graph-of-the-day-mass-shootings-more-common-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact of the Day:  Mass Shootings More Common in Europe Than the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lazy assumption that America suffers a uniquely high mass shooting rate is the foundation upon which 2nd Amendment restrictionists must rely.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if allegedly more &#8220;enlightened&#8221; nations like France or Norway that effectively prohibit so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; (a meaningless slur, but that&#8217;s another subject entirely) suffer a mass shooting rate as high or higher than the U.S., then their rationale for restricting law-abiding citizens&#8217; right to keep and bear arms collapses.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for them, as illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">crimeresearch.org<\/a>, that&#8217;s precisely what the real-world facts show. \u00a0France, Norway \u00a0and other European nations actually suffer higher mass shooting rates than the U.S. \u00a0In fact, out of 18 European and North American nations measured, the U.S. mass shooting rate is all the way down at number 12:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Comparing Mass Shooting Rates\" src=\"http:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-Tuesday-April-5-1.06-AM.png\" alt=\"Comparing Mass Shooting Rates\" width=\"438\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another inconvenient truth for those who wish to pointlessly restrict the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/436675\/dear-anti-gun-liberals-dont-tell-me-which-gun-i-need-self-defense\" target=\"_blank\">self-defense rights of law-abiding Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lazy assumption that America suffers a uniquely high mass shooting rate is the foundation upon which 2nd Amendment restrictionists must rely. After all, if allegedly more &#8220;enlightened&#8221; nations like France or Norway that effectively prohibit so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; (a meaningless slur, but that&#8217;s another subject entirely) suffer a mass shooting rate as high or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[590,2320,4266,220],"class_list":["post-23896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-europe","tag-gun-control","tag-mass-shootings","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23900,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896\/revisions\/23900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}