Good Morning America!

[AndyS]

Yesterday, July 10, there were 132 people shot in the land of the Free.

As of 9 AM today there have been 5 reported shootings*.

*The Gun Violence Archive uses more than 7,500 sources to compile near real time data on gun violence.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours

[lapfog_1]

1. last night at the fast food drive thru

I am in line to pay and pick up my food... and I hear "boom boom boom" from somewhere behind me in line... and my first thought was not "someone has leftover fireworks from the 4th"... it was "is that a shooter and if so, what should I be doing to get away from the situation..."

I've been conditioned.

[AndyS]

2. "what should I be doing"

If you have any school aged children in your life, ask them. They've been trained . . .

[lapfog_1]

3. well, all of my children are in college now...

and I doubt they would know what to do if trapped in a line of cars where the only driving option would be to jump the curb and take out some bushes as you drive across the landscape to get to the road. I did put the car into park and ducked down in the drivers seat.

[AndyS]

4. On a completely different note

congratulations on getting your children into college. Good on them and it speaks well of you

[lapfog_1]

5. talk to me again in 6 years

one is planning to get a PhD in psychology and the other an MD.

it's going to be an expensive 5 to 6 years.

[Rebl2]

6. Mass

shooting in KCMO last night in a bar/restaurant district. Six shot with one dead. Started as a fight, then someone was shot. Not a whole lot of information coming out right now. This area where it happened gets blocked off on Friday and Saturday nights and people have to walk through magnetometers to get into the area. Guess they need to do it on Sunday nights too.

[AndyS]

8. That one hadn't been tabulated as of my post. In fact, of the 388 shooting incidents

in the last 72 hours only 2 qualified as 'mass shootings' with 4 or more victims.

Mass shootings get a lot of coverage as they well should, being horrendous events that affect so many people at one time. However the vast number of shootings (386 of 388) are one or two victims. It is these little noticed incidents of sometimes personal and sometimes incidental violence that must be addressed. So many that, like fender benders, the media doesn't cover them for the tragedy they are.

It's the guns. The vast number of guns. The incredible lethality of the guns.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Only 2 mass shootings in 72 hours? Must be the heat and humidity forcing them inside.

[AndyS]

12. On average there are one or two a day but remember that

over the July 4 weekend there were 14. 14!

[doc03]

7. I am assuming they were all shot by a good guy with a gun

[Sky Jewels]

9. Well, the important thing is that no one's 2A rights have been infringed today.

[live love laugh]

10. What a valuable resource.