Mass shootings have hit 158 House districts so far this year (must see graphic)

The Hill ^ | 10 02 2019 | Jordan Lancaster, James Jarvis, etc

[txrefugee]

Aren’t most mass shooters Democrats?

[PubliusMM]

Exactly...
We stay pretty close to the news, but have heard NOTHING like these numbers, EVER!

[allwrong57]

Any that occur outside of Chicago and are no black on black gang killings. Did you notice the 22 in Texas with not mention of Chicago, yet I can see one every weekend?

[Steamburg]

GI-GO (Garbage in Garbage out)

Dishonest definitions and dishonest comparison does not a valid study make.

That is simply a false premise wrapped in a falsehood of mixed comparison.

[rktman]

This is a “mass shooting” which is a sport:

http://www.knobcreekrange.com/events/featured-events/machine-gun-shoot

The KILLINGS are not a sporting event and shouldn’t be called “shootings”

Butt, yeah, we all know the drill.

[Mr.Unique]

4 or more shot (injured or killed) in a single event [incident], at the same general time and location, not including the shooter.

Though some lists do included the shooter.

[Religion and Politics]

Thank goodness the Dems decided to impeach Trump instead of doing “gun control” legislation.

[Mr.Unique]

The complete mass shooting list: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

[bigbob]

Coincidence. Shooters don’t check to see which party reps a place before pulling the trigger, FFS.

[rktman]

Well they should have broken it down further so we would have known how many chirrun under 2 live in those districts to make sure we all know they were at risk. How many baptist churches, how many catholic churches, how many satanic cult members in the district. Absurd waste of time. Not our tax dollars I hope. Just the hill money.

[null and void]

Thank goodness the Dems decided to impeach Trump instead of doing “gun control” legislation.

As long as congress is focused on impeachment, they aren't passing more bad laws. This is probably one of the best things to happen to us in decades.

[CMSMC]

My thought, too. Does in include murder/suicide within a family?

[BenLurkin]

Not Chicago?

[Ingtar]

How about coloring the districts on a map of the USA?

[freeandfreezing]

Masterful propaganda by the anti-gun left:

“When schoolchildren are taught how to hide from active shooters before being taught how to write their name, we know that we have a problem in this country with gun violence,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), who represents the Virginia Beach community where a disgruntled city employee killed 12 people at a municipal building in May before being killed by police.

Teaching young children that they are at even a moderate risk of being involved in a mass shooting is nonsensical, considering that they are at a higher risk of death from drowning, or falling down the stairs, or a car crash, or a fire.

And then Rep. Luria's comment is juxtaposed with the details of a mass murder by a government employee. I wonder, do the teachers teach the children to be afraid of government employees, like the principal, or the school nurse, or some teacher deciding to shoot up the school?

The greatest mass murders are always perpetrated by government employees.

[freeandfreezing]

They are using a very broad definition of a "mass shooting":

"More than 315 mass shootings have taken place this year alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which tracks incidents in which four or more people are injured or killed. Those shootings have claimed the lives of at least 346 people, and another 1,200 have been injured."

Under their definition, the average mass shooting results in one death. (346/315 = 1.09)

[freeandfreezing]

They include Chicago, but they have an excuse:

"The 18 mass shootings in Rep. Danny K. Davis’s (D-Ill.) Chicago-based district have killed seven people and wounded 78; most of those incidents were likely gang or drug-related, Davis said."

So even though under their definition 18 of the 315 mass shootings happened in one Democrat's district where there are very strict gun control laws, the Democrat's want to apply those same kinds of laws to places where there were no mass shootings at all.

[freeandfreezing]

The site which provided the original data used by The Hill has an interactive map. You can see that most of the supposed mass shootings are urban violence in Democrat run areas most of which already have stringent gun control laws.

Here is the map.

[rwa265]

There is also a list by city and state.

The top states are:

36 - California
36 - Illinois
21 - Texas
16 - Louisiana
16 - Maryland
15 - Georgia
14 - Pennsylvania
13 - Missouri
10 - Ohio
09 - 6 Cities

The top cities are:

31 - Chicago
13 - Baltimore
09 - Philadelphia
09 - St. Louis
07 - Washington, D.C.
06 - Atlanta
06 - Houston
05 - Indianapolis
05 - Los Angeles
04 - 5 cities

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

[skinny old man]

Nothing new ! They have been doing that for years !