A Rather Large Pack of “Lone Wolves”

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Kevin Creighton / December 5, 2015 / 2 COMMENTS

We are constantly being told that it’s “lone wolf” terrorists who are behind the Islamic terrorism attacks on our country, but it’s a rather long line of loners who are to blame for the Islam-inspired violence inside America. Since that fateful day in September 2001, there have been, by my count, ten attempted and successful attacks by radical Islamic terrorists on American soil.

The 2006 UNC SUV Attack (9 injured)

The 2006 Seattle Jewish Center Shooting (1 dead, six injured)

The 2009 Arkansas Recruiting Center Shooting (1 dead, 1 injured)

The 2009 Fort Hood Shooting (13 dead, 33 injured)

The 2010 Attempted Bombing of Times Square (no injuries or fatalities)

The 2012 Boston Marathon Bombing (6 killed, 280 injured)

The 2014 Vaughn Foods Beheading (1 killed, 2 injured)

The 2015 Texas Art Show Shootings (1 injury)

The 2015 Chattanooga Recruiting Center Shootings (6 killed, 2 injured)

The 2015 San Bernardino Shooting (14 killed, 23 injured)

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12/5/2015

L.A. Times’s Steve Lopez Exaggerates Number of Multiple Death Shootings By More Than Threefold

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 3:26 pm

I have just sent the following email to Steve Lopez at the L.A. Times:

Mr. Lopez,

 

I am writing to correct an error in your December 3 column, in which you said:

 

The San Bernardino massacre was the 355th multiple-death shooting in the country this year.Every incident is different — the narratives cover everything from personal grudges to the many cracks in the mental healthcare system.

 

And every incident is the same — innocent people die for no reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

You have (I assume inadvertently) exaggerated the number of multiple-death shootings more than threefold. The true number of shootings in the U.S. in 2015 with two or more victims is 101, not 355. You are citing a statistic that relates to “mass shootings” and not “mass killings.”

 

As Ian Tuttle explains in National Review:

http://patterico.com/2015/12/05/l-a-timess-steve-lopez-exaggerates-number-of-multiple-death-shootings-by-more-than-threefold/