Predicting the next mass shooting!

[Luissa]

I have no clue why you would want to predict the next shooting.... But this makes me feel warm inside with me living in Spokane. Of course the original info is from Mother Jones.
http://m.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/09/there-will-be-another-mass-shooting/69508/

And why would you want to give anyone the idea to do this?

 

[Mr. H.]

That author has way too much time on his hands.

 

[Sunshine]

That author has way too much time on his hands.

And the first poster needs to get a real job.

 

[eflatminor]

Predicting the next mass shooting!

I predict the next mass shooting will take place in a gun free zone.

Of course, maybe criminals and crazies will start obeying the rules...

 

[hjmick]

Mass U.S. shootings such as the bloody rampage at the Washington Navy Yard spur safety concerns and garner intense media attention while statistically accounting for few of the total murders reported nationwide.

In the 30 years through March, 78 public mass shootings occurred in the U.S. -- incidents in which four or more people were killed at random by a gunman killing indiscriminately, according to a report issued that month by the Congressional Research Service. These crimes don’t include gang-related killings or domestic disputes where a person slays relatives or other people linked to the assailant.

The mass slaughters listed in the report caused the deaths of 547 people. Over the same three decades through 2012, that’s less than a tenth of 1 percent of the 559,347 people the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates were murdered in America.

No ‘Epidemic’

Knowledge is power...

 

[Luissa]

That author has way too much time on his hands.

And the first poster needs to get a real job.

I think a few right wingers are a little too obsessed with my personal life.

 

[whitehall]

What do modern mass shooters have in common? They are all crazy. They all send signals that they are out of control and out of their minds long before they pick up a gun. On the political side they all seem to be liberals or democrats. Anybody think the orange haired freakazoid who shot up the movie theater was conservative? The Sandy Hook shooter was a disturbed young man in a disturbed blue state. The Tucson shooter was an extremely disturbed young man who's parents were active in democrat politics. The perpetrator of the worst mass shooting on a college campus in history had several run-ins with the law and the faculty of Va. Tech was terrified of him. Yet the local police were reluctant to arrest him because he was a student. The Navy Yard shooter had a record of two other shootings and yet the federal government issued a security clearance.