{"id":88871,"date":"2022-12-26T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88871"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:39:28","slug":"88871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88871","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dr-lott-testifies-3-basic-facts-everyone-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Lott Testifies Before House Committee<\/a><br \/>\n(Gives 3 Basic Facts Everyone Should Know!)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on Gun Control\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v1ydmzw\/?pub=4u4tx#?secret=zlwQhVw7CM\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"zlwQhVw7CM\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Dr. John Lott Jr., president of the nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/\">Crime Prevention Research Center<\/a>\u00a0(CPRC), testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security last week for a hearing dedicated to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=5085\">Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lott delivered a lot of information but he began with three basic facts that everyone should know about gun-related violence in America.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1, Over 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms. <\/strong>The U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s National Crime Victimization Survey for 2020 shows 4,558,150 rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults, and the FBI reports 21,570 murders. Of those, firearms were involved in 350,460 rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. <em><strong>Adding those numbers up, 7.9% of violent crimes were committed with firearms.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2, While the US media doesn\u2019t give much, if any, coverage to mass public shootings in other countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/new-study-claims-rate-of-mass-public-shootings-is-higher-globally-and-increasing-more-rapidly\/\">mass public shootings per capita are relatively low in the United States<\/a>\u00a0compared to the rest of the world.<\/strong>\u00a0Over the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, the US had less than 1.13% of the world\u2019s share of mass public shooters and 1.77% of its mass public shooting murders. That\u2019s much less than the US\u2019s 4.6% share of the world population. Since 2000, there have been nine mass public school shootings in the US. Germany had only three over that period and Finland had only one, but the United States has four times the population of Germany and sixty times that of Finland. Russia has had four such massacres, but we have 2.3 times its population. On a per capita basis, all three countries have a similar or higher rate compared to that of the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3,<\/strong> Like many other mass public shooters, the Buffalo shooter targeted defenseless people. He even wrote in his manifesto: \u201cAttacking in a weapon-restricted area may decrease the chance of civilian backlash. Schools, courts, or areas where CCW are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack. Areas where CCW permits are low may also fit in this category. Areas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack.\u201d The national media refuses to report other explicit statements by attackers explaining why they pick the targets they do. <strong>Nor do they report the fact that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/three-charts-that-will-change-your-perspective-on-mass-public-shootings\/\">94% of mass public shootings occur\u00a0<\/a>in places where civilians are banned from having firearms.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lott Testifies Before House Committee (Gives 3 Basic Facts Everyone Should Know!) Dr. John Lott Jr., president of the nonprofit\u00a0Crime Prevention Research Center\u00a0(CPRC), testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security last week for a hearing dedicated to \u201cExamining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence.\u201d Dr. Lott delivered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88872,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88871\/revisions\/88872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}