(The Center Square) – Mass gun violence this year is down nearly 50% compared to last year, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who manages the Associated Press/USA TODAY mass killing database.
“As for crime, it’s: ‘Good news is no news.’ … mass shootings by the Gun Violence Archive definition (4+ shot, dead or survive) are down 48% so far this year,” Fox wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I call it Newton’s Law of Crime Statistics: What goes up, must come down. Just like the homicide rate more generally, spikes in mass shootings tend to be followed by corrective declines,” Fox told The Center Square in an email.
“There really is no epidemic of mass shootings; the epidemic in the level of fear that is way out of proportion with the risk,” he said.
He argues that when the media reports hundreds of cases of mass gun
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