Mass shooting Las Vegas

[JRPGfan]

Hiku said:

Lawlight said:

Well, it's quite lucky that the 2010 bombing got no one killed or that the 2016 bomb plot was twarted. Same with the 2011 assassination attempt.

Yes. And it's not like any attacks of this nature were never stopped in the US either. The point is that this tends to be a rare occurance in developed countries. But in the US mass shootings are occuring frequently.

You can do a lot about the average Joe's who want to go on killing sprees. Some, but significanbtly less, to thwart organizations that spend millions to build a network of agents to carry out these deeds.

However to be fair, in this particular case, it was probably hard to do much about this. He might have slipped through the cracks regardless. Although if guns were banned I doubt he would have that many assault rifles. If a semi-automatic rifle costs 34 000 on the black market, I don't know what a fully automatic rifle would cost.

"frequently" isnt the right word.... constantly is what your looking for.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/02/america-mass-shootings-gun-violence

1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days

"No other developed nation comes close to the rate of gun violence in America. Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every adult.

Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive reveals a shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people shot in one incident, not including the shooter – every 9 out of 10 days on average."

 

9 out of 10 days, theres a mass shooting (4+ people shot, in 1 incident) in the US.

Thats basically every day.