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Lasher

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35. The 900 Jonestown dead included over 200 murdered children.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 04:09 PM
Aug 2012

This was mostly a coerced mass suicide except for these children. They were murdered with cyanide.

Contrary to you claim, mass murderers do not "generally always prefer guns."

Guns aren’t even the most lethal mass murder weapon. According to data compiled by Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, guns killed an average of 4.92 victims per mass murder in the United States during the 20th century, just edging out knives, blunt objects, and bare hands, which killed 4.52 people per incident. Fire killed 6.82 people per mass murder, while explosives far outpaced the other options at 20.82. Of the 25 deadliest mass murders in the 20th century, only 52 percent involved guns.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/07/aurora_shooting_how_did_people_commit_mass_murder_before_automatic_weapons_.html

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OMG, next we'll all be defiled by knife porn! Lasher Aug 2012 #1
Dangit! Xyzse Aug 2012 #2
Using a knife is better. TheCowsCameHome Aug 2012 #3
Sarcasm fail is still fail Hugabear Aug 2012 #4
If the Chinese Turbineguy Aug 2012 #5
How many people can you kill with a knife without reloading? Lasher Aug 2012 #6
LOL yeah, if they just stand there and let you. Scout Aug 2012 #9
The strong can more easily prey on the weak in your gun-free world. Lasher Aug 2012 #11
but thanks to guns booley Aug 2012 #19
Plus 100,000,000 nt pkdu Aug 2012 #21
And you can do the same with poison. Lasher Aug 2012 #23
and yet booley Aug 2012 #24
That is true, but the massacre at Jonestown reminds us of the deadly potential of poison. Lasher Aug 2012 #25
explosives are tricky booley Aug 2012 #31
The 900 Jonestown dead included over 200 murdered children. Lasher Aug 2012 #35
i never said anything about gun-free Scout Aug 2012 #26
Yes, when I was in graduate school, an undergraduate was shot dead by a 13-year-old Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2012 #42
Hu Wenhai and Liu Haiwang killed 14 and injured 3 B2G Aug 2012 #10
I'd take our situation over theirs any day. 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #17
Our Resident Gun Militants Are Overjoyed By This. (nt) Paladin Aug 2012 #7
No. The simple point here is... Archae Aug 2012 #14
I Stand By My Comment. Paladin Aug 2012 #27
Sorry to disappoint you, but this defender of our Constitution doesn't take any pleasure 24601 Aug 2012 #38
Sorry, No Sale. Paladin Aug 2012 #41
Sale? My oath to support the constitution was never put on the auction block. These murders are 24601 Aug 2012 #45
thankfully, he wasn't able to easily access guns.... mike_c Aug 2012 #8
If only one of the victims had had a knife.... arbusto_baboso Aug 2012 #12
better yet, a gun n/t Bacchus4.0 Aug 2012 #13
Yes. Because what could POSSIBLY have gone wrong with that? arbusto_baboso Aug 2012 #15
Was it double edged or serrated? 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #16
Now, now. Igel Aug 2012 #18
I know many of you are slavering at the mouth over this booley Aug 2012 #20
I truly like the reasoned argument posted here.... Looking forward to the reasoned responses nt pkdu Aug 2012 #22
China is a police state 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #30
granted china is a police state booley Aug 2012 #32
The point you were making was based on China's official crime statistics being accurate 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #33
I opened this thread bitchkitty Aug 2012 #28
So sad. Knife attacks resulting in mass killing are very common... LanternWaste Aug 2012 #29
LIKE Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2012 #43
Good thing he didn't have an assault rifle with an extended clip. Exultant Democracy Aug 2012 #34
Really? Atlatl Aug 2012 #36
How dare you inject facts into an ideological argument.... 24601 Aug 2012 #40
If he killed 8 with knives treestar Aug 2012 #37
Please post your references that he had any firearms proficiency. If you have no facts to base it's 24601 Aug 2012 #39
Oh puleeze treestar Aug 2012 #46
Quick.. ship more jobs there.... lib2DaBone Aug 2012 #44
Sad Franker65 Aug 2012 #47
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