Every single day 30 or so people are murdered by guns in this country, and another 250 or so wounded. Think of it as just the start (since this happened in the very early hours of the morning) of the usual.
I have often posted here my utter opposition to all gun ownership, and frequently point out that the statistics on how many people die every year thanks to guns, that there's an untold number of those wounded, possibly maimed for life along with the deaths. I recently came across the figure of 97,000 people shot in this country in 2012. That number didn't indicate if it was all those shot, wounded and killed, or just the wounded, but it's still a pretty impressive number.
In most of the mass shootings, many more are merely wounded than killed. It's generally when someone decides to kill his wife/girlfriend, their kids, and maybe a couple of others unfortunate enough to be on the premises, then kills himself, that everyone involved dies. The Sandy Hook shooting is a bit of an anomaly, as there were only two wounded who survived, while he killed 26, then himself. Columbine: 13 killed, 21 injured. Aurora: 12 killed, 70 injured. And so on.
And yes, this is merely the latest. These things will continue so long as there are all those guns out there. Despite the assurances from all the gun nuts that gun deaths are declining in this country. Wow. How wonderful. But meanwhile, we can't possible do anything and just have to accept that every single day people will be murdered by guns in this country. Nothing to see here at all.
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