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- #601
What I have the biggest problem with is the outcry over murders when it involves school shootings or mass murders. In other words, when it is big news people want something done.
How many threads have we had this year ranting against AR15s because of the School/Mass shootings? The fact is, between 2007 and 2017 there have been a total of 173 people murdered in school or mass shootings. During that same time there have been just under 75,000 (74,618) gun murders (The solid FBI stats for 2016 and 2017 have not been released. I used 11,000 as the number of gun murders those years. Which is almost 1,500 more than the highest of the other years between 2007 and 2017)
75,000 murders, but the overwhelming focus is on the AR15s used in relatively rare school or mass shootings. Apparently the other 74,445 murders don't matter much. They weren't at a school, weren't a mass murder, and didn't involve an AR, so who cares?
During the same 11 year period, there were 32,000 murders that did not involve a gun at all. That is 184 times more people murdered where a gun was not used at all than the number of School/Mass killings with an AR.
This is pure hype and media sensationalism. When the number of fatalities from lightning is over 3x the number of fatalities from School/Mass shootings with ARs, the hype spewed about the rifles is utterly ridiculous.
How many threads have we had this year ranting against AR15s because of the School/Mass shootings? The fact is, between 2007 and 2017 there have been a total of 173 people murdered in school or mass shootings. During that same time there have been just under 75,000 (74,618) gun murders (The solid FBI stats for 2016 and 2017 have not been released. I used 11,000 as the number of gun murders those years. Which is almost 1,500 more than the highest of the other years between 2007 and 2017)
75,000 murders, but the overwhelming focus is on the AR15s used in relatively rare school or mass shootings. Apparently the other 74,445 murders don't matter much. They weren't at a school, weren't a mass murder, and didn't involve an AR, so who cares?
During the same 11 year period, there were 32,000 murders that did not involve a gun at all. That is 184 times more people murdered where a gun was not used at all than the number of School/Mass killings with an AR.
This is pure hype and media sensationalism. When the number of fatalities from lightning is over 3x the number of fatalities from School/Mass shootings with ARs, the hype spewed about the rifles is utterly ridiculous.