Claims of United States Being the Worst Country for Mass Shootings are Wrong: Study Shows

Former president Barack Obama speaks to a gathering of more than 50 mayors and other guests during the North American Climate Summit in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2017. Scott Olson/Getty Images

A number of top-ranking Democrats have oft-repeated a claim that the United States has far more mass shootings than in other Western countries.

“Let’s be clear,” Barack Obama said in 2015, according to CNBC. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”