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HereSince1628

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3. Interesting thing about the numbers, there were 16 mass shootings in 2012...
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 04:05 PM
Mar 2013

Assuming all 16 shooters were legally in possession of firearms (which they weren't)...
and an estimated number of legal gun owners in the US is 80,000,000,

% of legal gun owners involved in mass shootings is ~00.00002%

Assuming all 16 shooters were mentally ill (which hasn't been established)
The estimated number of persons with mental illness in the US is 78,000,000,

% of mentally ill involved in mass shootings is~ 00.00002%

Hmmm, interesting number, over all mentally ill and over all gun owners , they present the same average risk of being a shooter in a mass killing.

So, then, assuming all 16 shooters used bullets discharged from firearms
Well, no need to provide the numbers....

100% of the mass shootings last year involved bullets discharged from firearms

And furthermore 100% of shootings regardless of the number of victims in 2012 and every other year involve bullets discharged from firearms.





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