https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/06/13/cnn-no-really-mass-shootings-are-not-on-the-rise/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:35:14 -0400<![CDATA[For the second time in two days, CNN went out of its way to debunk the Michael Bloomberg/Barack Obama claim that mass shootings have become epidemic and a &#8220;new normal&#8221; in American society. The day after CNN debunked the Bloomberg-funded Everytown claim that there were 74 Newtown-style mass shootings since Sandy Hook, Jake Tapper interviewed Northeastern University criminology professor James Alan Fox to look at the data rather than the anecdotes. Over a 40-year period, Fox concluded, mass shootings have remained flat &#8212; even while the population of the country has grown significantly over the same period:]]>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:01:24 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/06/13/cnn-no-really-mass-shootings-are-not-on-the-rise-n190507