Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings and Mass Public Violence in the US and Europe

In his address to the nation after the Charleston attack, Obama claimed: “we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.” --Senator Harry Reid made a similar statement on June 23rd: “The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs. Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. … We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons.”

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(Hat tip: KimR)

Note: Remember the Department of Homeland Security's 2009 controversial report released with the blessings of then Secretary Janet Napolitano regarding right-wing extremists and returning veterans. Today's leftists appear to believe that anyone to the right of center politically suffers from a mental illness. Who wants these folks re-defining 'mental illness' to determine who can own a gun? See Washington Times article. --bc