Yawn? Not enough dead to be interesting?
Yawn, you won't do anything about it, they'll just keep happening, ho hum.
Gunmen on motorbikes raid Niger villages, kill at least 137 | Niger News | Al Jazeera
And next, you will show us that their gun deaths are higher per capita than here in the U.S., right?
Mexico's murder rate is 3x higher than the U.S. and gun ownership is 10x lower.
Really? Where do we stand in ranking murder rates by country?
Irrelevant. The argument is: "more guns = more murder". The data I posted proves that to be incorrect. Besides there are more factors involved than just gun ownership. In 1994, during the Rawandan Genocide, hundreds of thousands of people were murdered; most were hacked to death with machetes.
A new report on preventing school shootings released by the Secret Service this week is getting a l
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The key in stopping these types of attacks before they take place involves alerting the proper channels, whether it’s the school itself or local law enforcement.
Even when the would-be attackers didn’t explicitly divulge their plans, however, there are other commonalities in behavior that could indicate the potential for violence:
33% had substance abuse issues
30% had prior contact with law enforcement
70% had documented mental health issues, including previous suicide attempts, depression, and receiving treatment.
91% had “stressors” within the previous five years, including physical abuse at home or bullying at school.
Additionally, nearly half (41%) of the potential attackers had demonstrated an interest in the Columbine killings in Littleton, Colorado in 1999, which has gained an almost cult-like following among a small subset of Americans.