Missing the Point With Statistics

I just caught a few minutes of the Brazil-Croatia World Cup opener ("patient possession football" said the announcer, which apparently means kinda slow and humdrum), and before I knew it, it was halftime. So I switched over to CNN to see if anything was going on, and caught a pretty good example of how to miss the point with statistics. The chart at issue is on the right. According to James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, mass shootings aren't on the rise, even though it might seem that the...