[E. Pluribus Unum]

A Congressional Research Service report published in 2013 counted 78 mass-shooting incidents over a thirty-year period in which 547 people were killed.

In other words, on average, 20 people a year die in mass shootings.

There are varying estimates from the CDC, FBI, Harvard and Northwestern studies that say there are between 300,000 and 3,000,000 defensive firearm uses every year, and no shot is fired in 99% of those incidents of successful self-defense.

A lot more than 20 of those 300,000 to 3,000,000 people will wind up being murder or violent crime victims if you deny them the most effective tool for self-defense that there is, a firearm.

[MUDDOG]

Obama made this comment: “the unique mayhem that gun violence afflicts upon this nation.”

So Obama does believe in American exceptionalism.

[xrmusn]

Your are NOT playing fair.
You are using facts and statistics.

You are ruining a carefully thought out process that makes US the bad guys.

Two things in life that are considered ‘gimmees’...

It is all on account of what a White Straight Male .....fill in the blanks ....

OR

It is Bushes fault.

Once you place your head in the sand, between your legs and keep agreeing with these dummies, you will be happy.

[Ditter]

Where have the worst beheadings been?

[WildHighlander57]

What are the other ones?

Web site wants me to subscribe.....

[apocalypto]

Reminded me of the Beslan school shooting in Russia, with nearly 400 killed, some of them shot, others blown to death by explosives, some probably also decapitated, little children tortured to death, by the Religion of Peace.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I guess we aren’t counting the millions of people who were disarmed and then murdered by their governments.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

In other (old) news - "An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records."
HealthGrades, August 2004

Of course this was before Obamacare.

Guns are evil./s

[Spktyr]

Second one is incorrect. The second worst mass shooting in world history occurred in South Korea in 1982. 56 killed, 35 wounded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon

This pushes the US to number 5.

[Washi]

Keep in mind that incidents in the U.S. that had the potential to become mass shootings, such as the New Life Church shooting in Colorado in 2007, were thwarted by good people with guns in a non-”gun free zone” and were kept from becoming mass shootings.

[ForYourChildren]

But Obama said it only happens here. We are the only civilized nation with this problem.