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Since January 2009, there have been at least 110 mass shootings in the United States.
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LN, what exactly is the plan for getting guns out of the hands of CRIMINALS and not the hands of the LAWFUL?
I carry a firearm not out of fear of the lawful, but for protection from the criminal.
LN, what exactly is the plan for getting guns out of the hands of CRIMINALS and not the hands of the LAWFUL?
I carry a firearm not out of fear of the lawful, but for protection from the criminal.
You mistake his intent. LN's idea is to disarm everyone.
This fixation with mass shootings amazes me.
They account for around 1% of the murders every year, and yet they are the focus of most of the gun control attempts.
Why? Because these shootings get the white-bread wealthy people and make ordinary citizens feel unsafe. Can't have that.
As long as the sheeple think they are safe if they stay out of the ghettos, no gun control legislation will pass. That is why they ignore 99% of the gun related murders.
But let the masses think that going to the mall or a movie theater is dangerous and the 2nd Amendment goes out the window.
If you take the annual averages of 11k gun murders and 19k gun suicides, the 100 mass shootings doesn't seem so bad.
Since January 2009 there have been around 60,000 gun related murders.
Since January 2009 there have been around 104,500 gun related suicides.
Also, I noticed that the link used mostly percentages to make their point. "63% more deaths!" So the numbers could actually be low, compared to other violent crimes, but the 63% increase sounds ominous. If a city had 5 murders one year, and 8 the next, that is a 60% increase. But for a large city it is a ridiculously low number.
What a fucking dolt...........
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.........APRIL 2013..........JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY
The study concluded >>>>
Many people believe that owning guns only increases the amount of crime. However, a recent study published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy concluded that there is a negative correlation between gun ownership and violent crime in countries internationally. In other words, the more guns the less crime. The study showed that nations with strict gun control laws have substantially higher murder rates than those who do not. In fact, the 9 European nations with the lowest gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times that of the nine European nations with the highest gun ownership rate.
Here is the entire paper that pwns the gun grabber weenies >>>>
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
Comparing states reveals little; a list by population, and firearm restrictions, would be helpful however. Vehicular deaths must to be examined if one wants to identify "deadliest states".
Rolling Stone, their the ones that put a terrorist on their cover. I can assure you that a small town in east Texas is safer than an urban ghetto.
Maine:
NO
NO
NO
Gun laws make no difference...
Comparing states reveals little; a list by population, and firearm restrictions, would be helpful however. Vehicular deaths must to be examined if one wants to identify "deadliest states".
The figures used in the OP also show little actual useful data.
For one thing, mass shootings are defined by the FBI as any shooting involving 4 or more victims. Almost half of those used in the stats of the OP are also domestic violence, with someone killing their families. This is much different that the crazed gunman opening fire on strangers, which is what the term "Mass shooting" invokes in most people.
If you take the annual average number of gun murders to be 11k, then the "mass shootings become such a small number.
There have been 934 people killed in mass shootings over the last 7 years. Of that number, 376 were someone killing 4 or more family members.
So the reality of the numbers is:
Average number of deaths from mass shootings per year = 133
Average number killed by family per year = 54
Average number killed by strangers in mass shooting per year = 80
So the number of murders by strangers in mass shootings is only 0.7% of the gun related murders annually.
And yet this is what the anti-gun crowd is focused on, almost exclusively.
