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niyad

(113,325 posts) Mon Jan 23, 2023, 11:19 AM Jan 2023

Last edited Mon Jan 23, 2023, 12:42 PM - Edit history (1)

*mass shooting is defined as one in which 4 or more are dead ir wounded, including the shooter.

WE'RE NUMBER 1!!!!

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Day 23 of the new year. Mass shootings* SO FAR: 38. Dead:66. Wounded:160. (Original Post) niyad Jan 2023 OP

OMG.. this will never end 🤬 Deuxcents Jan 2023 #1

Sadly true. niyad Jan 2023 #2

gun deaths finally surpassed car deaths in 2021 by 3000 GenXer47 Jan 2023 #3

phallic extensions, for the most part. niyad Jan 2023 #4

(16,235 posts)

1. OMG.. this will never end 🤬

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 11:32 AM

Jan 2023

(113,325 posts)

2. Sadly true.

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 11:38 AM

Jan 2023

(1,204 posts)

3. gun deaths finally surpassed car deaths in 2021 by 3000

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 12:26 PM

Jan 2023

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

I suppose we accept 42,000 car deaths so that people can go to work and keep the big machine going (I know, it's grim and it's gross).
But shooting a gun at another human being is pure waste of a life. It has no function in society at all.

(113,325 posts)

4. phallic extensions, for the most part.

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 12:37 PM

Jan 2023