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by ccffph 2537 days ago
We don't have mass shootings every week.

70% of gun deaths are suicides. The majority of the rest are inner city unlawful gang-on-gang violence.

Most people never even see a gun in the US in their lifetime. Stop spreading misinformation and fear-mongering propaganda.
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kevincrane 2537 days ago
There have been more mass shootings so far in 2019 than there have been days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

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chrshawkes 2537 days ago
While there is most definitely a gun issue in the USA, that Wikipedia article said less than 200 have actually died in all of those mass shootings this year. As the third most populated country with over 320 million people, the chances of being involved in a mass shooting scrape is still astronomically small compared to keeling over from a heart attack due to too much McDonalds and CNN.
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hello_moto 2537 days ago
"while there's an issue, but only 200 out of 300 mill people died".

You count the number of people who got killed. You should also included the number of people who "almost" got killed (paralyzed), traumatized, etc.

Somehow your statement also made the whole thing looks "insignificant". I'm not sure why that is because in other countries, there will be a huge uproar leading to change in laws and regulations to the point of banning.

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kevincrane 2537 days ago
And nearly 800 have been shot in mass shootings, that's wild for a country as developed as ours (and that's ignoring individual instances of gun violence, and how easy and catastrophic it makes suicide and domestic violence).
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chrshawkes 2537 days ago
It's alarming but there are a few items on this list ahead of gun violence. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-gun-death-murder-risk-stat...
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hello_moto 2537 days ago
"70% gun deaths are suicides" => THIS is propaganda, give me drill-down numbers. Do you consider mass-shooting as ONE incident? how do you count the victims?

So if hundreds died due to repeated mass-shootings and only 30% of the incidents that makes gun to be a non-issue in the States? because the other 70% gun-deaths are suicides? So just because the largest piece of the Pie-chart is for "non-violent" gun-death then there is no gun-issue?

What about domestic conflicts that leads to shooting? (glad they missed ... )

Damn...

I saw Dana Loesch went on CNN one time and I saw her speaking in some sort of Townhall. She's really good at her job and the NRA should pay her TONS of money. That lady can sell you anything including MySpace.com today.

You should talk to the victims of mass-shootings and learn the truth.

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