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by owie829 3843 days ago
active shooter is not "becoming all too-common" and it's a really silly thing to be so concerned about. FBI found 160 incidents of active shooters between 2000-2013 with total of 1,043 casualties (486 deaths and 556 wounded).

Contrast that with other causes of mortality which in one year kill many more: motor vehicle accidents 35,369; peptic ulcers 2,988; gallbladder disorders 3,377; renal failure 46,425

Accidental poisoning killed 8,251 people between the ages of 25-34 in 2013 alone. Stop worrying about active shooters.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases... http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf