Through the same time period a year ago there were 301 mass shootings, according to Shooting Tracker.
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More than one a day.
By one count, the San Bernardino, Calif. shooting, in which 14 people were killed and at least 17 injured Wednesday in what was reportedly a holiday party for government employees, was the 355th mass shooting in the first 336 days of 2015. “Mass shootings offer neither”. “No more congressional #thoughtsandprayers”.
Hours after the mass shooting at a centre for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, with a population of just over 200,000 people, two suspects were fatally shot in a gun battle with police. Since January, there have been at least 354 such cases in about 220 cities in 47 states, shootings, according to shootingtracker.com.
It’s not clear whether he was married or engaged to Malik, but they did have a six-month old daughter together.
It’s the paper’s response to the second gun rampage in less than a week and the deadliest since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in CT.
Despite the alarming frequency of mass shootings in America, they account for just a small fraction of people killed by guns each year. Advocates have said they expect to take a similar ballot approach to background checks in other states, likening it to same-sex marriage, where public support trumps the willingness of legislators to take action. And, obviously our hearts go out to the victims and the families. Half of all victims were women.
From Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas(the vilest of the vile, who once wrote “screw them” of American contractors murdered in Iraq): “How many dead people did those thoughts and prayers bring back to life?” “But the fact is, what will affect the most people is to have the expanded background checks to the trade shows, to the Internet”. Too many have already needlessly died.
The shooting in California, McCarthy said, was “unbelievable”.
“It’s a matter of how you slice it”, said Fox, who praised the CRS report.
“The only increase has been in fear, and in the perception of an increase”, he said. Every single Democrat running for president wants to address gun laws in varying degrees, with Martin O’Malley out front, Hillary Clinton saying she would use a combination of executive action and legislation, and Bernie Sanders agrees that we need to do something. Good luck to law enforcement and God bless.
“Humans in general are adverse to killing other individuals, so it’s hard to sell someone else on helping you with that”, said J. Pete Blair, a criminal justice professor at Texas State University who worked on the Federal Bureau of Investigation study.
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“Other countries have evil people”. They’ll be on display from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.at the north terminus along Broadway at Denny Way, on 14th Avenue at S. Washington Street, and at S. Jackson Street at Occidental Avenue S. The streetcars are nearing the final phase of testing before they get up and running for real.
