Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

(6,641 posts) Thu Nov 2, 2017, 09:42 PM Nov 2017

Gun Violence Archive Statistics as of 11/2/17

Total Gun Violence Incidents: 51,874

Total Number of Deaths: 12,971 (does not include 22,000 suicides)

Total Number of Injuries: 26,674

Mass Shootings: 299 (incidents in which 4 or more people are killed or wounded)

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

According to the right-wing gun lobby and it's apologists and enablers, this is just the price we must pay for Freedom and Liberty. According to the majority of Americans these numbers are insane, and those who cause them, along with the death merchants who arm those who are responsible for these numbers, are domestic terrorists.

As flaming lib says: "Guns don't kill -- people with guns kill."

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Gun Violence Archive Statistics as of 11/2/17 (Original Post) billh58 Nov 2017 OP

and the scary part lapfog_1 Nov 2017 #1

Actually, its the price we pay for sharing this country with right wing morons. Nitram Nov 2017 #2

Almost like a civil war between the armed minority and the unarmed guillaumeb Nov 2017 #3

lapfog_1

(30,143 posts)

1. and the scary part

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Thu Nov 2, 2017, 10:04 PM

Nov 2017

is that I believe that some of these mass shootings are motivated by the shooter wanting to "be remembered" and to "stand out"...

And that bar keeps getting higher and higher.

Nitram

(24,597 posts)

2. Actually, its the price we pay for sharing this country with right wing morons.

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Fri Nov 3, 2017, 08:41 AM

Nov 2017

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

3. Almost like a civil war between the armed minority and the unarmed

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Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:19 PM

Nov 2017

majority. The NRA solution is more guns, but the same solution is significant restrictions on possessing and carrying guns.

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