Mother Jones' statistics: 73% of mass-shooting perpetrators (years 1982-2012) have been white

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9. 547 mass shooting deaths in last 30 yrs.

About the number of gun deaths in Chicago alone last year.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/547-dead-476-hurt-mass-shootings-since-1983-182605303--politics.html

Public mass shootings like the slaughter of schoolchildren and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary have left 547 people dead and 476 more injured in the U.S. since 1983, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.

The CRS study—which was made public by the Federation of American Scientists—does not weigh in on whether restricting access to guns or ammunition would prevent future incidents, a cause President Barack Obama has championed since the December tragedy in Newtown, Conn.

The CRS study—which counts only the deaths of people other than the shooter or shooters—shows that mass shootings represent a relatively small portion of overall deaths by firearms in the United States. FBI figures show that guns were used to kill 8,583 people in 2011 alone.

“While tragic and shocking, public mass shootings account for few of the murders or non-negligent homicides related to firearms that occur annually in the United States,” the CRS study said.

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I don't know what Mother Jones' goal is here, but regardless of which race or gender is responsible for the majority of gun violence in the US, taking guns away from law-abiding gun owners only leaves the criminals armed and the rest of us defenseless.