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Mass shootings in the United States

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Total deaths in U.S. mass shootings from 1982 to 2021, shaded to indicate the beginning and end of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.^[1]

 

Locations of US mass shootings in 2015, according to Shooting Tracker.

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. The precise inclusion criteria are disputed, and there is no broadly accepted definition.^[2][3][4] One definition is an act of public firearm violence—excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization—in which a shooter kills at least four victims. Using this definition, one study found that nearly one-third of the world's public mass shootings between 1966 and 2012 (90 of 292 incidents) occurred in the United States.^[5][6] Using a similar definition, The Washington Post records 163 mass shootings in the United States between 1967 and June 2019.^[7]

Gun Violence Archive, frequently cited by the press, defines a mass shooting as firearm violence resulting in at least four people being shot at roughly the same time and location, excluding the perpetrator.^[8][9] Using this definition, there have been 2,128 mass shootings since 2013, roughly one per day.^[8][10]

The United States has had more mass shootings than any other country.^{[5][11][12][13][14][15]} Shooters generally either die by suicide afterward, or are restrained or killed by law enforcement officers or armed^[16] civilians.^[17] Mass shootings accounted for under 0.2% of homicides in the U.S. between 2000 and 2016.^[18]

 

 

There have been over 300+ million people in America for the past three decades. Whenever a psycho liberal goes apechit and decides to kill a bunch of people it gets splattered all over the media for days. Then some other freak liberal gets an idea and wants his 15 minutes of fame and tries to mimic the other freak liberal.

America is a Republic with a constitution that says the right to defend myself, my family, and my country is given to me by God. I can defend myself with a firearm, the government can't take that right away.

Now let's compare this to countries of the world with a similar population, like China, Russia, India. They don't have the same rights to possess firearms, but they have mass killings by their own freaks who use knives, swords, automobiles, poison, fire, bombs, etc..

Those other countries have done something to prevent their psychos from committing mass killings. They put them in prison or a mental hospital. The USA doesn't.

Do you really want to examine who's behind all of these mass shootings over the past 20 years? Are you sure? I don't think you'll like the results, there have been more from your side than my side.

You've also told us in the past that you used to be a cop, but not a peep from you on your conservative brothers and their behavior in our most recent event, what happened to moral fortitude?

You can defend your family just fine with rifles and hand guns, there is no need for assault weapons, they are not for defending, they are for attacking. God didn't give you the right to any guns, that was done by guys just like you and I who put it on paper and called it the constitution. 

Jetsheep, 

the founding fathers wanted the second amendment because 

unlike you Libz 

they weren't naive about human nature. 
they weren't naive about the evils of government unchecked

do the divided the powers of government and reserved rights to the people.

Especially  the  right  to bear arms

which obviously pisses off those who would expand the powered of government 

and weaken popular resistance to measures that might lead to another

"Declaration of Independence"

( have you ever read the original one, Jetsheep)

No, you don't have such reservation nor common sence

which makes you a poster boy for a lib

"Useful idiot"

"Those who would surrender their freedoms for security deserve,  and will retain, NEITHER!"

-- Ben Franklin

" Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to repeat it"

-- Carlos Santayana 

"Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to repeat it"

-- Carlos Santayana 

Do you remember any of the mass shootings in America? Obviously not, you will do nothing to stop them.

Stay away from crowded public places.

Do you really want to examine who's behind all of these mass shootings over the past 20 years? Are you sure? I don't think you'll like the results, there have been more from your side than my side.

You've also told us in the past that you used to be a cop, but not a peep from you on your conservative brothers and their behavior in our most recent event, what happened to moral fortitude?

Leadership, leadership, leadership! Not necessarily in the command structure but also in the group- I'm gonna bet that at least one of the cops responding to the Uvalde call wanted to take effective action, take the initiative from the shooter.

Delay, beyond the time to form a plan is a sure path to failure. As soon as you stop acting, it becomes very difficult to attempt to regain the initiative. In the long ago times I was in pre-Vietnam flight school the mantra was 'Do something, even if it's wrong!' Inactivity is ineffectivity.

Once you move on your planned response, the plan might well disappear, but the inertia of your action will carry you through that and your tactical training will pay off. You have taken the initiative from the attacker and that's almost as good as a head shot.

In my former job, I had occasion to watch law enforcement train in what they called the 'shoot house'. They weren't training in multiple hostage situations, but they probably would have quickly overpowered an amateur who had no combat training, much less experience. Quick, violent and efficient.