Year to date: 109 mass shootings, 122 dead. 325 wounded. 81st day of the year

[niyad]

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]

1. Fortunately, in 46 of those, no one died.

[niyad]

3. Should we take a bow??? Really????

[WarGamer]

4. Well the alternative is that 3 or 4 people died in all 109 shootings.

True?

[niyad]

19. No, an alternative would be sane gun control. Not intimating that we should be boasting that

people were only wounded, as though those should not be counted.

[USALiberal]

6. ??? You wanted them dead? Nt

[niyad]

18. Nice try.

[Iggo]

10. I was wondering how they were gonna nitpick you.

Didn’t see that one coming.

At least you don’t call a clip a magazine. Ain’t no coming back from that.

[niyad]

11. I would not presume to identify any part of a gun or its components. I did not see that coming,

either. But not surprised.

[bdamomma]

2. Our country

among all other countries has the highest rate of gun violence.

[niyad]

17. We're number one!!!!!

[bdamomma]

27. yea

even in covid deaths too.

[niyad]

29. Sadly true.

[Bluethroughu]

5. Wow.

[niyad]

16. I was stunned at the numbers.

[Bluethroughu]

21. This is absolutely unacceptable.

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]

7. I fear it could get worse.

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]

12. I fear that you are quite correct.

[Raine]

13. Agree, stress from lockup and financial concerns are

driving people insane.

[bdamomma]

28. for sure

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. And if the gun could not be bought, those people would likely not have been shot to death.

But hey, banning guns is too extreme!

[niyad]

15. I know. That "too extreme" makes me want to scream.

[torius]

9. Someone didn't come to my online writing group tonight

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]

14. Last year, the grandkids of a woman I know very slightly had a party while their parents were

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???

[torius]

20. omg

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. Can we finally begin the dialog regarding assault weapons?

Unbelievable that they'e legal.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Joe Madison mentioned on his show this morning

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]

24. But just think about all the money made by the gun manufacturers

Isn't that what counts? Count profits not bodies!

[niyad]

25. Silly of us to actually think of people first!

[bdamomma]

31. Those lobbyists

pushing money into those QOP pockets. Bulldoze those Repigs and just stop this.

[BSdetect]

26. This is so fixable. We have to take control.

[niyad]

30. It must be fixed. It sickens no me looking at the gun worshippers and apologists. A true cult.

[Klaralven]

32. On the other hand, there were 10,258 murders by firearms in 2019. And 2020 was up from that.

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.