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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYear to date: 109 mass shootings, 122 dead. 325 wounded. 81st day of the year
Mass shooting as defined here is four or more shot or killed, not counting the shooter.
No school or church mass shootings so far.
WarGamer
(12,326 posts)niyad
(113,029 posts)WarGamer
(12,326 posts)True?
niyad
(113,029 posts)people were only wounded, as though those should not be counted.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)niyad
(113,029 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)Didnt see that one coming.
At least you dont call a clip a magazine. Aint no coming back from that.
niyad
(113,029 posts)either. But not surprised.
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)among all other countries has the highest rate of gun violence.
niyad
(113,029 posts)even in covid deaths too.
niyad
(113,029 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,140 posts)niyad
(113,029 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,140 posts)Tax the rich and corporations, it's time to turn this ship around. We need the money to pay for investments in quality of life for everyone. This is not a problem in other developed countries. Lack of opportunity grows despair and mental health issues.
I'm disturbed at how this is now part of American culture.
moondust
(19,956 posts)COVID fatigue and economic disaster may be taking a heavy toll on some people's mental stability. Very bad time to have millions of guns in circulation.
niyad
(113,029 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)driving people insane.
we are going to need many more mental health professionals, sad. We need to control this effing virus and get people back to work.
This saying
Idle Minds Quotes. So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation..
ColinC
(8,277 posts)But hey, banning guns is too extreme!
niyad
(113,029 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)because one of her first-grade students had been shot and killed. Kids found a gun and were playing with it.
I've never met her in person, she's in another state, but this hits home.
niyad
(113,029 posts)out. The kids had been instructed that they were NOT to invite their friends over, so of course they did. One of the guests found the gun the father kept. She was playing around with it, and killed one of the other guests. She, and several other kids, are in therapy now. Apart from my sorrow for the parents of the dead child, I seriously want to slap the father. Why in the f'n HELL was a loaded gun kept where even a guest, a child, could find it???
They are supposed to keep the guns locked up. They should have to prove by smartlocks that the gun closet is locked and an auto notification should go to the authorities when the owner unlocks it.
bif
(22,679 posts)Unbelievable that they'e legal.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)that there have been 7 "mass shootings" (by that definition) in the past 7 days (a bunch happening in various cities over the weekend included - and notably this past Saturday).
malaise
(268,664 posts)Isn't that what counts? Count profits not bodies!
niyad
(113,029 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)pushing money into those QOP pockets. Bulldoze those Repigs and just stop this.
BSdetect
(8,994 posts)niyad
(113,029 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Mass shootings, while they provoke a media frenzy, are a drop in the bucket.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls
In most cases an ordinary semiautomatic handgun is used.