How Governments Can Manipulate Murder Rates by Excluding "Terrorist" Killings

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Mises: How Governments Can Manipulate Murder Rates by Excluding "Terrorist" Killings

DECEMBER 3, 2015 Ryan McMaken

Days after the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, President Obama had the chutzpah to stand up in Paris of all places and declare that mass shootings don't occur "in other countries." As one blogger noted, this would be like Ariel Sharon visiting Manhattan in October 2001 and casually observing that terrorism just doesn’t happen outside Israel."

 

It truly is fascinating how a mere two weeks after Parisians fall victim to one of the worst mass shootings in recent memory, that a politician can say — in the very city where the shootings took place — that mass shootings are unique to the United States.

 

The only way that such behavior can be viewed as anything other than bizarre or ridiculous would be to buy into the assertion that there is a meaningful difference between mass shooters that are deemed to be terrorists, and those that are not