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Gun Control & RKBA

liberal N proud

(61,013 posts) Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:56 AM Aug 2015

The US is averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015 [View all]

As of August 26th, the US has had 247 mass shootings in the 238 days of 2015.

For those keeping track, that's an average of more than one shooting per day.

These numbers are according to the Mass Shooting Tracker created by the anti-gun subreddit Guns Are Cool.

Wednesday morning's stunning on-air fatal shooting in Roanoke, Virginia of a television reporter and a photographer wasn't even the first shooting of the day. Roughly three hours earlier at 3:15 a.m., four people were shot during a home invasion in Minneapolis.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-averages-one-mass-shooting-per-day-2015-8#ixzz3k1HT46mu

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The US is averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015 [View all] liberal N proud Aug 2015 OP

This is why I turned off the news after Ilsa Aug 2015 #1

CC is becoming more important by the day. ileus Aug 2015 #2

Yep, more guns, that's the answer. liberal N proud Aug 2015 #4

How do you expect to enforce gun control? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #9

The gun lovers and their ridiculous excuses for not doing anything about the slaughter....is Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #3

Yes, let's hurry up ... Straw Man Aug 2015 #12

"What are you proposing that could have prevented this tragedy?" Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #18

We aren't against everything. beevul Aug 2015 #19

He bought the gun legally . . . nt flamin lib Aug 2015 #5

If one goes by the modified definition, I suppose. beevul Aug 2015 #6

Ah, Pentagon Budgeting meets Pump Up the Volume... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #7

A mass shooting defined... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #8

Or in a Chicago playground at 2AM DonP Aug 2015 #10

Because they can discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #11

If you're going to change definitions... krispos42 Aug 2015 #13

You have so destroyed their argument... beevul Aug 2015 #14

so true Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #15

"Live by the bumper sticker ....." DonP Aug 2015 #16

I wish it were true. Hangingon Aug 2015 #17