Ever notice the number of mass shootings in the

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Ever notice the number of mass shootings in the U.S. has increased since King Obama took over ?

Coincidence , I think not.

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Origins: In December 2015, a chart purportedly showing the number of mass shootings under the last five United States presidents began circulating online.

The claim that there were 162 mass shootings under President Obama and 23 or less during the presidential terms of his predecessors was first posited by the web site TruthStreamMedia.com on 2 December 2015. The website provided a PDF of its data as well as links to the various sources used to compile the information.


Data compiled from various sources including:

Mother Jones' Investigation: US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/m...-full-data

Mass Shootings in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_s...es_by_year

List of Postal Shootings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_killings

[Note: The URL provided by TruthStreamMedia.com for "Mass Shootings in the United States" directed to an error page and was fixed by Snopes.]

The sources provided by TruthStreamMedia.com, however, did not back up their claim that there had been 162 mass shootings under President Obama. Mother Jones had 25 mass shootings recorded during Obama's term, Wikipedia had no "postal killings" recorded since Obama took office, and the list of "Mass Shootings In The United States By Year" had 47 recorded between 2009 and 2015.

Many of the incidents recorded on Wikipedia's list of "Mass Shootings In The United States By Year" also appear on Mother Jones' list of mass shootings, resulting in a number much lower than 162.

TruthStreamMedia.com fudged its numbers by loosening its definition of "mass shootings" to include domestic murders while collecting data for President Obama but exclude similar instances for his predecessors.

For example, one entry under President Obama lists "Ervin Lupoe." Lupoe killed his wife and five kids in 2009 but this incident was not listed by Wikipedia or Mother Jones because it was not classified as a "mass shooting":quote]

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