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.
So if you like high violent crime and murder rates, by all means advocate taking guns away from law-abiding citizens.
The rest of the industrialized world does have African Americans.
If you stopped the black on black shootings, the numbers would plummet.
To date, more than 170,000 people (mostly Christians and Shiites) were killed in Iraq by ISIS.
Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes include Romanis, Christian Poles, communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled. In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including approximately one million Jewish children.
So BS on the whole damn story.
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“By glamorizing gun violence and promoting a culture of fear and paranoia, gun makers will continue to make handsome profits “
Ahem, no, that would be your MEDIA, the guys in Hollywood who help you asshats get elected year after year while you disarm victims around the country every chance you get.
A lot depends on the criteria you use to define a “mass shooting”.
Believe it or not, this was a rival bus line fued......
How many shooters are not American citizens?
Luxembourg, which outlaws private ownership of firearms entirely, had ZERO mass shootings during the studies period. Therefore, countries that outlaw private ownership of firearms NEVER experience mass shootings.
Or so the specious “logic” of the gun-haters goes.
Never mind that the US has football stadiums that wuld hold the entire population of Luxembourg with room left for Andorra.
My favorite study on this subject is the Harvard Law School study titled WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?
It can be found at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
It concludes as follows:
The burden of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that mantra.149 To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world.
Good lord....
That website is about as bad as the SPLC when it comes to bleeding heart propaganda.
Nothing but emotion and idiocy....
You will find that America is plunk in the middle, in those numbers.
As Archie Bunker once famously said:
Gloria: Did you know that 65% of the people murdered in this country were killed by handguns?
Archie: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?
And if the mostly gang and drug related black on black homicides that occur in our major metropolitan areas run by black Democrats for the last 40-50 years (all have strict gun control ordinances, dontcha know) are set aside, the rate for the US drops even farther down the graph...