Serious Best Posts: There have been 355 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year.

JFK · Dec 3, 2015

Dec 3, 2015
Mass shootings are obviously an awful tragedy, but this issue isn't new.

Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/u...-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html

The average number of annual mass shootings actually declined slightly from 2011 to 2014, compared with the previous four-year period.

“It’s a matter of how you slice it,” said Professor Fox, who nonetheless praised the research service’s report.

While the numbers shift from year to year, there has been no discernible trend in the numbers or in the characteristics of the assailants, said Professor Fox, who is also a co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”

“The only increase has been in fear, and in the perception of an increase,” he said. “A lot of that has been because of the nature of media coverage. In the ’70s and ’80s, we didn’t hear about it on the Internet — because there was no Internet — and we didn’t have cable news channels that would devote 24 hours of coverage.”
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Out of 320 million people in the US, there are 357 s-----y human beings involved in mass shootings. Yes, that's 357 too many, but the world is not falling apart. It's as terrible as it's always been.

MTY · Dec 2, 2015

Dec 2, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-is-the-second-today-and-the-355th-this-year/

The problem's still not guns, right?

Loyalty · Dec 3, 2015

Dec 3, 2015

Alchemist34 · Dec 2, 2015

Dec 2, 2015
America should bomb America

Nori · Dec 2, 2015

Dec 2, 2015
I hate guns

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