The evolution of mass shootings in the US:



https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/...70/photo/1

"Need more guns", they say...

(November 7, 2017 at 6:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Just goes to show how we cannot rely on government bureaucrats to protect us.

Particularly when those bureaucrats are hamstrung by that self-same bureaucracy: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-...-many-guns

It's almost as though they're losing a rigged game, isn't it?

(November 12, 2017 at 5:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The evolution of mass shootings in the US:



https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/...70/photo/1

"Need more guns", they say...

There are a hell of a lot more than listed above. "Mass shooting" means more than 3 people at a time getting shot does not include fatalities but can. 

This list does not contain suicides, domestic violence, neighbor on neighbor, accidental. 36,000 firearm deaths per year on average of all kinds, not just mass shootings. 

Point being, it still remains we have a flooded market and they are way too easy to obtain.

But this list above does show the absurdity of "No!" coming from the do nothing far right. If our current amount of firearms and current laws worked, we would see less of these events, not more.

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As an aside, the Luby's shooting put a crack in my belief in a God. I was going to a computer class at the time, and believed at the time. I announced the event to some students waiting for the teacher to show up, and asked them if they would join me in prayer. Yep, that was me. But immediately got shot(no pun intended) by a female class mate, who basically said while the event was horrible, the classroom was not a church. It was one of my first encounters skepticism. I still wanted to believe even after that, but the response was jarring for me a the time. I look back at it now and wish I could thank her for shutting me up.

(November 6, 2017 at 10:01 am)Cyberman Wrote: It is interesting how quickly Sinn Fein and the IRA went very quiet post-2001.

Never knew 1997 was after 2001!

(November 12, 2017 at 5:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The evolution of mass shootings in the US:



https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/...70/photo/1

"Need more guns", they say...

(November 13, 2017 at 9:35 am)Wololo Wrote:

(November 6, 2017 at 10:01 am)Cyberman Wrote: It is interesting how quickly Sinn Fein and the IRA went very quiet post-2001.

Never knew 1997 was after 2001!

I don't remember saying that it was..?

(November 7, 2017 at 9:44 pm)wallym Wrote: Getting murdered is at least a little bit of oppression.

It's not oppression of Christians unless the reason they were murdered is that they were Christians. The reason they were murdered seems to be that they gathered in the same place where the shooter's mother-in-law could often be found, who, ironically, wasn't there that morning.

(November 13, 2017 at 1:04 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(November 7, 2017 at 9:44 pm)wallym Wrote: Getting murdered is at least a little bit of oppression.

It's not oppression of Christians unless the reason they were murdered is that they were Christians. The reason they were murdered seems to be that they gathered in the same place where the shooter's mother-in-law could often be found, who, ironically, wasn't there that morning.

I agree,.No this was not Christian persecution, they,Christians want to claim that, they'd be right to claim Egyptian Coptic Christians and Kurdish Christians in Iraq are persecuted. In America I'd say regardless of motive, the blame for all our mass shootings is actually coming from the religious right in their fervor to link the 2nd Amendment to no rules at all. Unwitting at best, but still based on the fear marketing the makers use and the NRA sells. 

Va Tech shooter was mentally ill.
Roof was motivated by white religious nationalism.
Pulse shooter was Muslim motivated.
Columbine killers were thrill killers.

This guy was trying to get even with his x. The church was not the target.

But in all the cases listed above, all of them had easy access to firearms.

(November 13, 2017 at 10:14 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(November 12, 2017 at 5:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The evolution of mass shootings in the US:



https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/...70/photo/1

"Need more guns", they say...

Why do you show us a biased graph, from a biased source?


Try this:

You didn't really expect honesty from the Gun Club, did you?