Crime stats published by the FBI and relied upon by the media distort the gun violence and leave the public with the impression "mass shooting" incidents are a much bigger threat than they really are
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/25/sh ... latestnewsJohn Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said the latest statistics contain numbers that are misleading at best and deliberately fudged at worst. Lott believes the numbers may have been presented to overstate for political purposes the true risk of being a victim of random gun crimes.
I love his no nonsense approach to looking at the numbers and calling out people when something doesn't add up.