US is No. 1 in mass shootings — by a very wide margin

American exceptionalism: US is No. 1 in mass shootings — by a very wide margin

The United States is, by a long shot, the global leader in mass shootings, claiming just 5 percent of the global population but an outsized share — 31 percent — of the world’s mass shooters since 1966, a new study finds. The Philippines, Russia, Yemen and France—all countries that can claim a substantial share of the…