Posted on 08/28/2015 5:23:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
When a gunman opened fire Wednesday on two Virginia journalists and the woman they were interviewing on live TV, he was influenced by a long history of public mass killings throughout the country. Shooter Vester Lee Flanagan II said he admired mass shooters like those at Columbine High School in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, and that he put down a deposit for a gun two days after the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting in June.
When it comes to gun massacres, the United States is tragically exceptional: There are more public mass shootings in the United States than in any other country in the world, according to a new study.
Between 1966 and 2012, there were 90 mass shootings in the United States. Mass shootings are defined for the study as having four or more victims and don't include gang killings or slayings that involve the death of multiple family members; while high-profile, the Virginia shooting does not fit this definition. These are shootings such as those in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that same year.
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What do you call it in the mideast when ISIS comes into a town and kills almost all of the non-Muslims? It’s not a mass shooting?
Killing two people and injuring one is a “mass shooting”?
Um, more than Iraq or Syria?
71 bodies found in a truck in Austria.
Not one of them was shot.
Yeah but we have fewer car bombings and mass beheadings so it kind of evens out.
Now as far as countries not involved in civil wars, ours is the third most populous country on Earth. With second amendment protecting peoples rights to have guns, it stands to reason that we would have the ‘most’ mass shootings than any country. Particularly countries like China where the mass shootings are carried out by the government.
Again, a loony liberal writes an anti gun article that begins with hyperbole and exaggeration. And even a first year logic student knows that if you begin with an erroneous premise, your conclusion will also be erroneous.
But since when have loony liberals been concerned with logic or reason?
Not according to the FBI. A 2005 report classified a "mass murderer" as someone who kills 4 or more people (not including himself/herself) in a single incident. Longer running killers (eg. multiple incidents at different locations & times) get labeled spree killers or serial killers (even longer term).
But a few incidents are all it takes to grab headlines and try to push a disarming fascist agenda. Most (57% last I checked) of the roughly 30,000 deaths per year in the US by firearm are suicide. Also included in that number are accidental deaths and justifiable homicides (both by law enforcement and civilians). The actual number of homicides by firearms each year is considerably lower. Even smaller still is the average number of people killed in "mass shooting" incidents each year.
But they need fear to stoke their agenda. Let's have some fun with numbers though to assuage those fears with facts. Each year in the US about 20 to 30 people are killed in "mass shooting" incidents (4+). How afraid should you be? Well, if someone wants to kill you, a mass shooting is not terribly likely to be the tool of choice.
In other words, people are getting killed all kinds of crazy ways. Your chances of being killed in a "mass shooting" event are so far down the list it literally is not worth worrying about. You want to be concerned for your safety? Worry about your commute to/from work today. You are far more likely to be one of the roughly 30,000 traffic deaths this year than the 30 mass shooting deaths. Oh, that's right. The media can't use traffic deaths to push their disarmament agenda. The would-be fascist intelligentsia want obedient slaves that lack the means to revolt.
Ah, but there are fewer beheadings than ANYWHERE. LOL.
Question: do other countries allow their serious mental cases to walk the ways and byways of their country??
Well Boko Haram, Isis and liberals call it culling the herd, you know removing the sickly or weak animals from the rest of the herd. You, I and all the other normal people call it mass murder.
Surely ISIS should count for something in Iraq and Syria
I remember when Ronald Gene Simmons murdered sixteen people here in Arkansas.
He strangled half the people with a cord, drowned one.
He shot the other half with a single action .22 Ruger.
Guess which ones the anti-gunners bring up demanding tougher gun laws.
In reading some old Western magazines, I found many massacres in the 1800s in which no guns were used.
One look at the activities of Isis or Mexico, for that matter, shows the lie of this article.
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