America leads the world in mass public shootings, contagion model suggests media is to blame

The United States now leads the world in mass public shootings for a number of reasons according to studies. A new study led by Adam Lankford, associate professor of criminal justice for Alabama University, revealed that 90 of 292 global gun massacres between 1966 and 2011 occurred in the US. His findings were shared at the American Sociological Association’s annual conference mid-August. Lankford said people are shocked to find that the U.S. accounts for only 5% of the world’s population, yet 31% of global gun massacres during the past 45 years occurred here.

To clarify, gun massacres involve at least four …read more