Posted on 12/03/2015 10:36:40 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
FULL TITLE: Obama's inconsistent claim on the 'frequency' of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently.”
–President Obama, interview that aired on CBS Evening News, Dec. 2, 2015
“With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. … I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings: This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”
–Obama, news conference at COP21 climate conference in Paris, Dec. 1, 2015
“We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.”
–Obama, statement on shootings at Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 1, 2015
“You don’t see murder on this kind of scale, with this kind of frequency, in any other advanced nation on Earth.”
–Obama, speech at U.S. Conference of Mayors, June 19, 2015
“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. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it.”
–Obama, statement on the shooting in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015
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Obozo is just making things up now. I’ve been to Miami a lot but have never seen fish swimming in downtown streets.
Sorry - nothing personal, but I’m no longer clicking links to deniers of the obvious.
Let’s change it from mass shootings to general mayhem. Israel endures things like this frequently. Yes, one can do more damage with a gun versus a knife, but the intent is the same.
We may be advanced, but morality has been drained from this land because of liberalism. Is that a key??
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”
You mean where black people are killing other black people every day, day after day? If so, I agree with that statement.
Next time Obama goes on about a Gun Control rant someone should give him a Loaded Gun as a Prop and just maybe he’ll shoot himself
There is a part of Miami that is below sea level if the tide is high. Has been that way forever. But it makes good press to show pictures of water in the streets when they have an exceptional high tide.
There’s a part of Honolulu that is like that too, and where pictures get trotted out as evidence of global warming. Nobody points out that area has always been like that, and before it was developed many years ago was a coastal marshland.
More killed in Chicago in a year than all the mass murders put together.
First, and most obvious step to reducing the mass shootings is to get the Jihadis out of the White House.
Here are a few world wide we don’t remember.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/timeline-worst-mass-shootings-globe-article-1.1220608
And more in the USA.
In 1902 Harry Tracy stacked up dead law men with a 30-30 Winchester rifle.
The BATH school disaster with a bomb, 1927.
Then there was the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre in 1929.
Sept. 1949: Howard Unruh left his house for a twelve minute walk around his Camden, New Jersey neighborhood, shooting people at random and killing 13.
Jan. 1958: Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate went on a gunning spree after killing Caril’s parents and sister. The two of them traveled through Nebraska and were captured in Wyoming ultimately killing eleven people.
July 1966: Charles Whitman barricaded himself in the University of Texas clock tower and began shooting at students below. The shoot off lasted 90 minutes and ultimately killed 18 people and wounded 30 others.
Dec: 1972: Mark James Robert Essex hid down the street from a police station and target police with a .44 magnum killing 10 people and wounding 13 others in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mar. 1975: James Ruppert shot and killed his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews at an Easter Sunday dinner in Hamilton, Ohio. The 11 victims were shot a total of 35 times.
July 1976: Edward Charles opened fired with a .22 caliber rifle in the basement library of the California State University in Fullerton. He killed seven people and injured two.
1982: Carl Brown shot and killed 8 people at a Miami machine shop where he just recently had his lawn mower worked on. He was then caught trying to escape and ran over by civilians chasing him.
April 1982: A police officer gathered weapons from the local armory and used his police status to enter homes and kill those who were there. He either shot them or killed them with grenades. The officer continued this for eight hours.
Sept 1982: George Banks went on a shooting spree and killed 13 people with an AR-15 high-powered rifle in Wilkes-Barre City and Jenkins Township.
July 1984: James Oliver Huberty dressed in camouflage and went to McDonalds in San Ysidro. At McDonalds he opened fire and killed 21 people before a sniper shot ended his life.
https://www.raptureready.com/time/massmurder.html
I find it interesting that so many of these happened before the so-called “assault rifle†became popular.
I’m sure that if you look closer at the times before 1970 you will find many more mass killings. I remember seeing a tabloid photo of a 1950s family who picked up a hitch hiker and he murdered the entire family and dumped their bodies in a well. The man, wife, several kids, and I remember the youngest child laying there dead still in the little cowboy outfit he had on.
By racial descent:
1) whites
2) middle easterners ( a) Christians, b) muslims, c) others)
3), far easterners ( a) Christians b) muslims, c) others)
4) Africans;
and also by citizenship:
5) by birth, 3 or more generations,
6) by birth, 2 generations,
7) by birth, 1 generation,
8) legal aliens, permanent
9) legal aliens, temporary and
10) undocumented aliens.
There are wide disparities there.
“It was just eight days ago that President Barack Obama reassured the nation that there was no imminent threat of terror attacks from ISIS.”
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