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Kasz216 on 14 December 2012
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Sal.Paradise said:
Kasz216 said:
Sal.Paradise said:
Kasz216 said:
 

hint.  If you do look through it.  You'll see it's about 60 total mass shootings in the last 20 years for ALL areas.  Not just schools.

I got that number from the great right wing conspiracy machine known as Mother Jones.

 

Believe me... mother Jones isn't going to understate the number, because they want to ban guns more then pretty much any group who'd bother to figure out about how many mass shootings have happened in the last 30 years.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying 'all areas'? And what are you counting as 'mass shootings' here, is that the reason for having such a lower figure? 

 

I just did 'look through it' and  I count 76 school shootings going back to 2000, so 76 in 12 years. 

I'll break it down for you.

Teacher goes into a school with a gun.  Shoots antoher teacher.   Is arrested.

That would count as a school shooting.   That kind of thing isn't as rare as you would think anywhere.

 

A Mass killer is like in this case.  Where the person tries to kill a bunch of people.  Such cases are very rare to where Per capita compairsons are useless... since anytime a country like Finland or Norway have one... they suddenly shoot so far over the US it'd make your head spin.

 

Consider it this way.  60 shooters in a population of 300 million.  Or 1 shooter in a population of 5 million. 

The first sounds a lot worse right... 60!

They're the exact same ratio.  I mean honestly, a country like Germany probably has a higher ration then the US, as they've had a few mass killings in the last 30 years or so and a much smaller population.