How many gun slaughters have we discussed here at DU.

[trumad]

Dozens...Hundreds?

It gets to a point where it's just a bunch of fucking words.

.

[kpete]

1. too many

[hifiguy]

4. This.

But they will never stop.

[zappaman]

2. You stay away from muh guns!!

[valerief]

3. Are you including the WAR PROFITEERS' wars, too? Lotta slaughtering there, too. nt

[trumad]

5. No...

That's a separate category.

[valerief]

6. It's all from the same pot of shit stew served up by our government. nt

[shenmue]

7. No.

"Our government" does not make people do mass shootings.

[valerief]

8. Our government lets them do mass shootings by (1) not controlling guns,

(2) making their lives difficult by allowing jobs to be shipped offshore to the lowest bidder, (3) not providing true universal healthcare, (4) glorifying war, and (5) not putting controls on video games that glorify murder. Yes, our government does this. It creates misery and then sits on its hands.

[heartofstone]

18. We live in a militarized culture

where war is served up like a football game.....what more should we expect? This is a cultural issue and the US is a young country culturally, hence the reason we naively embrace war and violence on such a massive scale. That all may be changing soon as it seems the amount of propaganda we are being fed has become too obvious. Americans have to choose who they want to be. The current road we're on leads nowhere.

[hlthe2b]

9. I don't discuss anymore since i'm right on the edge of really unleashing what I really think...

and could not stop once I got started... That includes my thoughts towards those who enable this to happen (and troll anyone who suggests change of any kind in response to these horrific shootings and the daily carnage that has become a "mere" statistic). I'd bet all who really give a damn about gun violence on DU know exactly to what/whom I refer.

[treestar]

10. so many

and yet we run across the claim there are fewer shooting than there were before.

[Stuart G]

11. there are more than before..far too many....nt

[Glassunion]

14. Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

It is true that violent crime is on the decline. So folks will jump up and down, don't regulate my guns, cause we have less violent crime. And they stop there.

Problem is, that even though violent crime is down, mass shootings are up. Prior to 2011, the US was averaging 200 days between mass shootings. Since then, we are averaging only 64 days. They don't figure this into their calculations. Thus, they tell us all we are safer cause crime is down even though mass shooting are 3x more likely to occur today, than they were 5 years ago.

[treestar]

15. So true.

Gun nuts suck. Don't know how they live with themselves when one of these happens.

[ellisonz]

12. I think even the Admins have lost count

[bluedigger]

13. You mean so far?

Too many.

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. The gungeoneers are checking

how many "hides" they have to burn and planning the rotation of the usual yargle bargle. It is as predictable as the shootings.

[trumad]

17. Yep..

This is when it's most dangerous for me and I get hides myself for calling them out.