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1. "Using news accounts and FBI records from 2006 through 2010, the most recent years for which complete records were available, USA TODAY identified 156 murders that met the FBI definitions of mass killings, where four or more people were killed.
a. The review offers perhaps the most current, complete picture yet of a crime that is both frighteningly common and not widely understood.
2. The killings between 2006 and 2010, however, offer a portrait of mass murder that in many ways belies the stereotype of a lone gunman targeting strangers:
Lone gunmen, such as the one who terrorized Sandy Hook Elementary School last week, account for less than half of the nation's mass killers. About a quarter of mass murders involve two or more killers.
3. A third of mass killings didn't involve guns at all. In 15 incidents, the victims died in a fire. In 20 others, the killer used a knife or a blunt object. When guns were involved, killers were far more likely to use handguns than any other type of weapon.
4. Children are frequently victims. At least 161 who died in mass killings -- roughly one in five -- were 12 and younger.
5. Mass murderers tend to be older than other killers, with an average age of nearly 32 years old. Like all killers, they are overwhelmingly men.
6. But for all the attention they receive, mass killings still accounted for only a tiny fraction about 1% of all the Americans who were murdered over those five years.
7. During those five years, more died from migraines and falling out of chairs than were murdered by mass killers,..."
Mass killings occur in USA once every two weeks
The CDC did an exhaustive study of the effectiveness of gun laws....
"The systematic review development team identified 51 studies that evaluated the effects of selected firearms laws on violence and met the inclusion criteria for this review. No study was excluded because of limitations in design or execution. Information on violent outcomes was available in 48 studies, and the remaining three studies, which provided information on counts or proportions of regulated firearms used in crime, were used as supplementary evidence. Several studies examined more than one type of firearm law."
Ready?
The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5214.pdf
Why?
Because guns are not the problem.
Think about that.
"Mass Killings:" More Died From Migraines
That should give comfort to the families of the 20 children murdered by a nut with an AR-15.
You nutjobs just can't help yourselves, can you? Things have changed. This horrific crime has changed everything. You don't need a m ilitary-style or grade weapon. You don't need a drum magazine.
If you can't survive without those things, then curl up and die in a corner for all I care.
stop, please stop, you don't get it. This is about the kids and nothing more. You can't beat that image so stop trying.
Disgusting.
You rw's will roll in the worst shit but making fun of these deaths by comparing them to headaches, that's low, even for you. Really. You post the some of the worst but -- HEADACHES on the same par with little kids' murders?
"Mass Killings:" More Died From Migraines
That should give comfort to the families of the 20 children murdered by a nut with an AR-15.
You nutjobs just can't help yourselves, can you? Things have changed. This horrific crime has changed everything. You don't need a m ilitary-style or grade weapon. You don't need a drum magazine.
If you can't survive without those things, then curl up and die in a corner for all I care.
This is the same crowd that used to say the 100's of Americans who were dying in Iraq, not to mention the Iraqis, weren't that big a deal compared to the number dying in inner city violence in this country.
"Mass Killings:" More Died From Migraines
That should give comfort to the families of the 20 children murdered by a nut with an AR-15.
You nutjobs just can't help yourselves, can you? Things have changed. This horrific crime has changed everything. You don't need a m ilitary-style or grade weapon. You don't need a drum magazine.
If you can't survive without those things, then curl up and die in a corner for all I care.
stop, please stop, you don't get it. This is about the kids and nothing more. You can't beat that image so stop trying.
No it isn't.
As with any problem, it's the application of logic, experience and the data to find a solution.
If one actually seeks a solution.
If not, shout "it's about the children."
For Liberals, it's finding a cudgel to beat the opposition into silence and compliance with....
Who was that wise wag who noted:
"Not facts, nor data, nor experience, nor rational debate will convince Liberals."
In your case, your ability has taken you as far as you can go.
This about the availability of weopons of war to the crazies.
You and the NRA are the people that have made sure that the crazies have easy access to these weopons. You are accountable for these tragedies.
You and the other 'Conservatives' that have fought giving the mentally ill any help at all, if it cost the taxpayer a dime, are accountable. The price our children have paid in the past decade is so much greater than the cost of timely psychological help for these mentally ill people would have been.
This is a really sick thread.
Disgusting.
You rw's will roll in the worst shit but making fun of these deaths by comparing them to headaches, that's low, even for you. Really. You post the some of the worst but -- HEADACHES on the same par with little kids' murders?
stop, please stop, you don't get it. This is about the kids and nothing more. You can't beat that image so stop trying.
what about the adults that died?
Seems you and Barack don't care about teachers
No it isn't.
As with any problem, it's the application of logic, experience and the data to find a solution.
If one actually seeks a solution.
If not, shout "it's about the children."
For Liberals, it's finding a cudgel to beat the opposition into silence and compliance with....
Who was that wise wag who noted:
"Not facts, nor data, nor experience, nor rational debate will convince Liberals."
In your case, your ability has taken you as far as you can go.
This about the availability of weopons of war to the crazies.
You and the NRA are the people that have made sure that the crazies have easy access to these weopons. You are accountable for these tragedies.
You and the other 'Conservatives' that have fought giving the mentally ill any help at all, if it cost the taxpayer a dime, are accountable. The price our children have paid in the past decade is so much greater than the cost of timely psychological help for these mentally ill people would have been.
"This about the availability of weopons of war to the crazies."
Yikes!!! You have 'weopons' (sic) of war????
To the point. This is why the Democrat Party is called the 'party of the uninformed."
You probably believe that citizens purchase "assault rifles."
They do not. The phrase is a term of art (look that up) to assuage the numbskulls that vote Liberal.
This is the education portion of the post:
Armed forces use assault rifles. They are deemed so because they can be put on 'automatic.'
That means, hold the trigger....they continue to fire.
Commercially available US guns cannot be made 'automatic'....not legally.
BTW....glad you were able to get that 'our children' talking point in there....I'd hate to see you lose your laminated 'Liberal' card.
That should give comfort to the families of the 20 children murdered by a nut with an AR-15.
You nutjobs just can't help yourselves, can you? Things have changed. This horrific crime has changed everything. You don't need a m ilitary-style or grade weapon. You don't need a drum magazine.
If you can't survive without those things, then curl up and die in a corner for all I care.
This is the same crowd that used to say the 100's of Americans who were dying in Iraq, not to mention the Iraqis, weren't that big a deal compared to the number dying in inner city violence in this country.
so genius
can you tell us who broke the terms of the cease fire?
More children are murdered each month by late term abortion than were killed a Sandy Hook.More children were murdered by GW Bush in the first 24 hours of the Iraq War, the infamous 'shock and awe',
than were killed at the Sandy Hook school,
if you want an analogy that has some iota of relevance.
