• 👁️🫦👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Again, the vast majority or mass murders are committed with handguns. Those stats that say we’ve had more shootings than days bin the year always include handgun murders.Banningg assault rifles won’t noticeably decrease the number of mass shootings.

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      1 year ago

      You’re lumping shootings where 2 or more people are killed like gang shootings and family violence in with large-scale indiscriminate shootings of strangers.

      Semi-automatic rifles were featured in four of the five deadliest mass shootings, being used in the Las Vegas Strip massacre with 58 killed and 546 wounded, the Orlando nightclub massacre, Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, and Texas First Baptist Church massacre.

      • 👁️🫦👁️@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I know, that’s why I said stats from places like GVA or Everytown tend to include those shootings in their numbers.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t want to do anything about that either, so you don’t get to argue both points. The sad truth is, we’ve given up the idea that kids should grow up without needing to have active shooter training in schools. Now we just want to give them a chance while the shooter has to reload.