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Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States (here we go again)
The Washington Post ^ | December 14, 2012 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 12/14/2012 4:02:02 PM PST by EveningStar

I'm not going to quote from this article because I don't want to make anyone ill.

However, I will tell you that one of the author's sources is Mother Jones. I'm not joking.

Click on the link and read at your own risk.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; secondamendment
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To: EveningStar

Homosexual behavior kills even more people but it’s promoted as a virtue.


41 posted on 12/14/2012 5:00:52 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: EveningStar

Homosexual behavior kills even more people but it’s promoted as a virtue.


42 posted on 12/14/2012 5:01:27 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: baddog 219

I hope gun sales soar to new heights...


43 posted on 12/14/2012 5:07:06 PM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd ,you get no further than the crowd!")
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To: ronnie raygun

I wonder if he was on an anti-depressent..its known that they can cause sucidal thoughts


44 posted on 12/14/2012 5:08:53 PM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd ,you get no further than the crowd!")
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To: EveningStar

Those stats are crap!


45 posted on 12/14/2012 5:11:27 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Travis McGee

No one aged 6 can write like that!

What we need is trained dogs at the entrance to sniff out the TERMINATORS.


46 posted on 12/14/2012 5:14:36 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: ozzymandus

Remember how Sarah Brady was dancing in the blood of those children killed by a young Indian boy? He stole his father’s (a tribal cop) pistol to do it.


47 posted on 12/14/2012 5:16:58 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
"Blame the ACLU for letting all the loonies out in the 70’s."

BULLSEYE! Blame the ACLU lawyers and liberal politicians for the psychiatric hospital deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill that has taken place since 1972.

Of the 18 school massacres reported in US history, only TWO took place before 1972!

48 posted on 12/14/2012 5:18:40 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: EveningStar

One thing that I can guarantee without any doubt: If I place a loaded gun on a table with 50 people around it and none of them touch the gun, that gun will not injure anyone. Just like any other object that can cause a fatality (a car, a chainsaw, an ax), it is harmless but for the human factor. So, let’s ban people - all will be well then!


49 posted on 12/14/2012 5:25:16 PM PST by RobertClark (Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)
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To: baddog 219

And the UN will lead the attack on our 2nd Amendment.


50 posted on 12/14/2012 5:30:05 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: EveningStar

In the kid’s mind, he did exactly what was expected of him, but still managed to expose the ugly truth.


51 posted on 12/14/2012 5:33:34 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sooth2222

You forget something else, that the likelihood of such a rampaging killer meeting up with other deadly force, before being able to get very far with an intended massacre, has precipitously dropped.


52 posted on 12/14/2012 5:38:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Yankereb

I’m told Obamacare is going to fix all that.


53 posted on 12/14/2012 5:40:18 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: wastoute
Hey, school massacres worked in the UK and Australia.

For once Obama kept his word.

He promised he would work "Under the Radar" on Gun control.

Once again, the Media is gloating and salivating over the Great Victory.

54 posted on 12/14/2012 5:42:38 PM PST by Gorzaloon (Have a nice Thousand-Year Reich.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings,and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws.”
A Study by Profs. John Lott and William Landes
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=161637

How do Multiple Victim Public Shooters Decide Where to Attack?
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-do-multiple-victim-public-shooters.html

basically an armed defender (“good guy”) is the only thing stopping these freaks (other than if/when they kill themselves)


55 posted on 12/14/2012 5:45:12 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Eaker
Those stats are crap!

Ignorant opinion masquerading as deep thought? Delusional sense of self-importance?

Thank you for participating.

56 posted on 12/14/2012 6:00:44 PM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: ConradofMontferrat
That girl who shot up a mall in Florida in the ‘80’s did that. She was jacked up on Prozac. She stopped taking it. 2 month later she was dressed in camo, shooting up the mall before Christmas.

You are quite right. I've looked a little deeper into these bezodiazepines and their relatives. They are the source of mass mental disorders, not the cure, as the medical field ha bee led to believe. Check it out, especially klonopin.

57 posted on 12/14/2012 6:18:15 PM PST by imardmd1
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To: EveningStar
DOJ
Bureau of Justice Statistics
NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool (NVAT)

For 2011 (most currently available data):
Not sure if a Weapon used = 6.6%
Type of Weapon Unknown = 1.5%
ALL FIREARM = 8%
Knife = 5.8%
Other Type Weapon = 5.1%
NON-WEAPON RELATED = 72.9%

Where is the concern for the 55 million reported aborted Babies since Roe v. Wade? Has the acceptance of this practice as a legal right fostered a disrespect for life that we are now in the harvest of decades long acceptance?
58 posted on 12/14/2012 6:24:07 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: publius911

Quite the little tick turd aren’t you wee one?

I bet you blame you parents for being effeminate.

A mother who didn’t love you enough and a father who “loved” you too often?

Now why don’t you head back to DU and yuck it up with the other homos.


59 posted on 12/14/2012 6:27:01 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: angelcindy
America’s gun culture has to change.

"gun culture" has nothing to do with any of the previous mentioned shootings. MENTAL ILLNESS did.

60 posted on 12/14/2012 6:37:08 PM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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