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Blackpeopletwitter, Dieting, and Life: Faithful Black Men Association
OfficialFBMA
Alabama husband saved wife's life by
donating kidney after spending a year
dieting and exercising to get his blood
pressure low enough for surgery.
#MyASU #Tuskegee #FBMA
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UNIVERSITY
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2018-09-26, 12:33 PM
My eyes are sweating (via /r/BlackPeopleTwitter)
My eyes are sweating (via /r/BlackPeopleTwitter)
Dieting, Friday, and Life: Faithful Black Men Association
OfficialFBMA
Alabama husband saved wife's life by
donating kidney after spending a year
dieting and exercising to get his blood
pressure low enough for surgery.
#MyASU #Tuskegee #FBMA
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2018-09-26, 12:33 PM
A little Friday positivity
A little Friday positivity
Dieting, Friday, and Life: Faithful Black Men Association
OfficialFBMA
Alabama husband saved wife's life by
donating kidney after spending a year
dieting and exercising to get his blood
pressure low enough for surgery.
#MyASU #Tuskegee #FBMA
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UNIVERSITY
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ME
is588
2018-09-26, 12:33 PM
A little Friday positivity via /r/wholesomememes https://ift.tt/2xXVitB
A little Friday positivity via /r/wholesomememes https://ift.tt/2xXVitB
Sports, Alabama, and Aggies: Jimbo Fisher, watching his Aggies get obliterated by Alabama: https://t.co/WzprEUilQY
Jimbo Fisher, watching his Aggies get obliterated by Alabama: https://t.co/WzprEUilQY
America, cnn.com, and Crime: NEW STUDY DEBUNKS NARRATIVE THAT
MASS SHOOTINGS DON'T HAPPEN OUSIDE U.S.
Victims of Mass Shootings (4 or More Killed) by Country
Victims/100k population
0.06
0.06
>=0.15
0.33
>=1
Gray areas had no incidents or data was not available
97% of mass shootings between 1998
and 2012 occurred outside the U.S.
Unbiased America
HOW A BOTCHED STUDY MISLED THE WORLD ABOUT THE U.S. SHARE OF MASS PUBLIC SHOOTINGS
By Kevin Ryan
In 2015, President Obama made a claim following a mass shooting that has since become a widely accepted narrative: “I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings; this just doesn’t happen in other countries… We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”
The White House followed up the assertion by pointing to a then-unpublished paper by criminologist Adam Lankford claiming that the United States had 31% of public mass shooters between 1966 and 2012, despite having less than 5% of the world population. It concluded that our high rate of firearm ownership was to blame.
The press ate it up. “Americans make up about 4.4% of the global population but own 42% of the world’s guns. From 1966 to 2012, 31% of the gunmen in mass shootings worldwide were American, according to a study by Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama.” reported the New York Times. The Washington Post: “American exceptionalism and the ‘exceptionally American’ problem of mass shootings”. Time magazine: “Why the US has 31% of the World’s Mass Shootings”. CNN: “Why the US has the most mass shootings”. The Los Angeles Times - “Why the U.S. is No. 1—in mass shootings”. Similar stories were published in hundreds of outlets around the world.
And they’re all wrong.
New research indicates that, not only does America not have the most mass shootings, we actually have far fewer as a percent of our population than the rest of the world. The study finds that, despite having 4.6% of the world’s population and 40% of the world’s firearms, just 2.88% of the world’s mass shootings take place here.
Researchers used the same criteria that the original paper purported to use: a mass shooting which killed four or more victims in public places such as malls, schools, places of worship, businesses, government buildings, etc., motivated by hate or terror or crime etc. They excluded shootings that resulted from gang or drug violence or were the government sponsored (ie. war).
Unlike the original paper, which only used an FBI database and a search of english language websites, the new research used multiple crime databases, Nexis, and media searches for mass shootings, and hired people who spoke Chinese, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and other languages to scour international sources.
Their findings obliterate the narrative that mass shootings are a uniquely American problem.
Mass shootings between 1998 to 2012:
• United States: 43
• The rest of the world: 1,448
In other words, just 2.9% of mass shootings happen in America. 97.1% of them happen elsewhere.
Some of the countries that have higher rates of mass shootings than America include Finland, Norway, Russia, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Slovakia. 57 in all. 61 countries have more killed per capita in mass shootings than the U.S. And since the paper only looked at up to 2012, it doesn’t include the more recent terror related mass shootings that would likely put France and other European countries on the list.
As for why the original paper that claimed 31% of mass shootings happened in the U.S. was so off isn’t known, because, incredibly, its author refuses to share his data with researchers or the media.
And yet it’s been the basis of so much uncritical media coverage, and continues to be the widely cited to this day.
The new study thoroughly debunks its methods, here: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=269126002097094117099097073097081068122032049015054052117086127094066078121116113101033022034012040098112080068108119121118115111029057079021093027067064066100027053073116123005071023070021087026115070031105064116090004118077022121116117125118103&EXT=pdf
SOURCES: http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/2212215/obama-paris-mass-shootings-dont-happen-countries
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/01/study-claiming-us-is-home-one-third-mass-shooters-worldwide-debunked-figure-less-than-3-percent.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/27/american-exceptionalism-and-the-exceptionally-american-problem-of-mass-shootings/
http://time.com/4007909/gun-violence-mass-shootings/
https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/health/u-s-most-mass-shootings/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-united-states-mass-shooting-20150824-story.html
HOW A BOTCHED STUDY MISLED THE WORLD ABOUT THE U.S. SHARE OF MASS PUBLIC SHOOTINGS By Kevin Ryan In 2015, President Obama made a claim foll...
Nick Saban, Sports, and Alabama: Nick Saban, when Alabama gives up a field goal and reduces their lead to only 70-3: https://t.co/61b0dP67Zf
Nick Saban, when Alabama gives up a field goal and reduces their lead to only 70-3: https://t.co/61b0dP67Zf
Fire, Shower, and The Office: <p>So I mentioned this very briefly a few days ago but now that I’ve decompressed from the funeral I just want to make it public that if you ever are in the area of Centerville or Brent Alabama, do not under any circumstances stay at the Windwood Inn. It may be cheap but you get what you pay for. It’s a literal roach motel for starters. I have to drown one before I could even take a shower. And speaking of showers the room my aunt was in didn’t even have a working shower. Also I injured my foot on an exposed nail and there were nails sticking out of the furniture. Also the room I was in had a completely broken door latch and no damn fire alarm. They’re lucky I was too distracted with the funeral to march down to the office and threaten to call an inspector. This shitty dump doesn’t deserve to exist.</p>
<p>So I mentioned this very briefly a few days ago but now that I’ve decompressed from the funeral I just want to make it public that if you...
Family, News, and Police: Man walks over a
dozen miles to first
day of work, CEO
gifts him car as
thanks
12:25 AM EDT U.S
BY DANIELLE GARRAND CBS NEWS
Walter Carr received a vehicle from the CEO of
Bellhops on Monday
Cameron Edgeworth/WIAT-TV
Carr's vehicle stopped working
the night before his first day with
the moving company Bellhops,
and he knew he couldn't miss it
So, he decided to walk. Carr
began his hike from Homewood
Alabama, to the town of Pelham,
Alabama, at midnight. He walked
at least 14 miles before police
picked him up at 4 a.m.,
reports CBS affiliate WIAT-TV
Once police heard his story, they
took Carr to breakfast. Then, they
gave him a ride the rest of the
way to the home of the Lamev
family, who he was scheduled to
help move that morning
<p><a href="http://yiff.cool/post/175992866541/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if-more-news-articles-were-like" class="tumblr_blog">paper-mario-wiki</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>wouldnt it be nice if more news articles were like this</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/walter-carr-walks-to-first-day-of-work-ceo-gifts-him-car/">https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/walter-carr-walks-to-first-day-of-work-ceo-gifts-him-car/</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://yiff.cool/post/175992866541/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if-more-news-articles-were-like" class="tumblr_blog">paper-mario-wiki</a>:...
Club, Marriage, and Sex: Some Alabama judges were unwilling to
grant marriage licenses to same sex couples.
Then we have her
YES
I WILL
MARRY YOU
FOR THE Low, Low
OFFICIANT FEE OF
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<blockquote><p>Adorable Judge</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://laughoutloud-club.tumblr.com/post/175699845203/adorable-judge" class="tumblr_blog">laughoutloud-club</a>:</p> <blockquot...
Hello, Alabama, and Free: Rodney Smith Jr
@iamrodneysmith
Hello to Alabama . I will be mow
ing in Montgomery Tuesday morn-
ing. If you know of anyone who is
elderly, disabled, a single mother
or a veteran who needs their lawn
mower let me know. It's free
Welcome to
Sweet Home
Alabama
Governor Kay Ivey
<p>Being a good citizen</p>
<p>Being a good citizen</p>
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Children, Videos, and Alabama: Assembling &Decorating Cakes
All replies
Dear Chef Susie, I am 62 now but when
I was 5 years old, a lovely lady named
Miss Browning lived next door to my Aunt
Rochelle in Montgomery, Alabama. I adored
her. She was so kind to all us children. Your
voice is so like hers, sweet and lilting and
it makes me enjoy your videos even more
I have learned a lot from watching you.
Thanks so much for taking time to make
these instructional pieces for us.
gingercarol 2 years ago
<p>This lady’s comment on a cake decor tutorial via /r/wholesomememes <a href="https://ift.tt/2Jz66DI">https://ift.tt/2Jz66DI</a></p>
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Children, Videos, and Alabama: Assembling &Decorating Cakes
All replies
Dear Chef Susie, I am 62 now but when
I was 5 years old, a lovely lady named
Miss Browning lived next door to my Aunt
Rochelle in Montgomery, Alabama. I adored
her. She was so kind to all us children. Your
voice is so like hers, sweet and lilting and
it makes me enjoy your videos even more
I have learned a lot from watching you.
Thanks so much for taking time to make
these instructional pieces for us.
gingercarol 2 years ago
<p>This lady’s comment on a cake decor tutorial</p>
<p>This lady’s comment on a cake decor tutorial</p>
