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No, the Philippines don’t have more mass shootings than the US. Not even close. People seem to define “mass shooting” quite differently but no, your unsourced c
by xref 6y ago
No, the Philippines don’t have more mass shootings than the US. Not even close. People seem to define “mass shooting” quite differently but no, your unsourced claim the Philippines isn’t the leader.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/05/does-us-lead-world-mass-shootings/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/05/does-us-l...
- pseudo0 6y agoPer your own source, it depends on how you define a mass shooting. Lankford used an incredibly restrictive definition to get a result that portrayed the US in a negative light and generated a lot of media attention: > Using the four-person-killed definition, Lankford found that the United States had far more mass shooters (90 shooters in the 46 years, or 31 percent of the total) than the other countries, which averaged 1.7 public mass shooter per country. His research excluded gang-related shootings, drive-by shootings, hostage-taking incidents, robberies and acts of genocide or terrorism. Under Lott's broader definition, the Phillipines had significantly more mass shootings than the US per capita.