Posted on 10/02/2019 6:22:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than a third of all House lawmakers represent districts where a mass shooting has occurred this year, highlighting the bipartisan pressure on Congress to take action on gun legislation after a wave of killings in Texas and Ohio during August.
An analysis by The Hill found that about two-thirds of those shootings have taken place in districts represented by Democrats, many of whom represent cities hard-hit by the scourge of gun violence, while a third occurred in Republican-held districts, from the suburbs to rural communities.
Through Friday, 158 congressional districts had experienced at least one mass shooting this year. Fifty-two of those districts are held by Republicans, and 106 are represented by Democrats.
The rash of mass shootings has prompted a kind of rote habit among members of Congress who all too often find themselves grieving alongside their constituents. In interviews, lawmakers said they raced to the scenes of mass shootings, then spent the ensuing weeks helping facilitate government assistance to first responders and victims in between memorial services and vigils.
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Mark the district represented by idiots and you’ll have a lot more percentage than that.
Mark the districts represented by idiots and you’ll have a lot more percentage than that.
.....many of whom represent cities hard-hit by the scourge of illegal immigration, sanctuary city legislation and lenient criminal punishment
Do not want to click on The Hill. How many dead/wounded constitutes a ‘mass shooting’??
What is their definition of a mass shooting?
NPR is starting a big gun control push.
Yes.
Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
The devil is in the details of statistics.
“What is their definition of a mass shooting?”
Anything that doesn’t happen in Chicago.
Looks like a shooting that results in 4 or more deaths. Not a bad definition.
But so what?
A person still has a far greater chance of being killed with a knife than with an A-s-s-ault Rifle, according to the 2018 FBI statistics.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-20
average killed: 2.2 average injured 7.6 per “mass shooting”.
It has been deliberately used to conflate events where four or more people are injured in a shooting, with mass murder, where 4 unrelated people are murdered in a public place, unrelated to other criminal activity.
Most "mass shootings" are gang related or domestics, some are defense of self and others, the majority have 1 or less people killed.
Proof that this is terrorism being conducted by the Deep State.
How many in “gun free” zones?
I had noticed before that anytime Trump or the GOP gained traction, there was an "incident" of some kind. Usually a mass shooting, but not always. You don't always notice the absence of something...
Good catch noticing how quiet things get when the Dems seem to be on a roll.
The definition of a “mass shooting” is 4 or more shot in same incident. It doesn’t mean killed, although 3 of the 4 could be killed. (I think this is a media statistical measure.)
A mass homicide is 4 or more killed. (IIRC, this is an FBI statistic.)
Michael Turner, Ohio, 10th District (contains Dayton) is puzzling. Maybe murders are higher because it is a poorer area? Still not as bad as Dem areas.
Nevermind. That was the school shooting, nothing to do with the area.
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