Is your conclusion that stats have been used incorrectly, and that there is actually nothing to react to, no change is needed, people have no reason to be fearful, concerned, or react?
Are you concluding that the media has duped the public into reacting when it isn’t needed?
People are reacting already, have been since Columbine.
Dicks Sporting Goods- the largest sporting good store in the country stopped selling any kind of assault rifle in 2018 after the mass shooting at Parkland, Florida.
USA Today Article 2019 also says Dick’s destroyed $5 million worth of these guns, rather than sell them.
Your posts seems to be saying there is no rise in incidents… the stats say there is.
“Cases in which someone shoots strangers in a public place usually get the most attention. But fatal public shootings are a small fraction of all mass killings.
There has been a spike in these types of killings over the past few years, but the rate of occurrence has remained relatively flat since the mid-2000s, especially considering the growth in the U.S. population over that time frame.”
You focused on the but… I focused on the spike in the past few years.
“2022 saw the second most mass killings in a single year since tracking began. The number of victims was the third highest total, only surpassed in 2017 and 2019.”
The only way to support that the “spike” described will continue Is to do nothing and see.
I think we need to act- to prevent more loss of life- kids and young men should not have murder or suicide as a leading cause of death.
“Guns surpassed car accidents as the
leading cause of death for children and teenagers in 2020. The school security industry has grown into a
$3.1-billion-a-year market, but our database shows that when it comes to mass killings, most children die at home.”
You focused on the ‘most children die at home’, which the article goes on to explain that they are killed by a parent using a gun at home due to domestic violence.
““A guy who kills his wife and children and sometimes then kills himself is the most common type of mass killing,” Fox said. Mass killings take place far more often in private homes than in schools, supermarkets or churches.”
I focused on the fact that this trend is increasing, more child and teen deaths are gun related.
It is not ok that the leading cause of death among children and teens is gun violence in any year in this country, no matter who is shooting them or what gun they use.
To me that is beyond unacceptable, it is disgraceful, embarrassing, and shows a general lack of care for women and children in this country. I’m Livid
And so it is clear by these stats why some groups want to take away guns. You can’t have a mass shooting without a gun.
I do not, but I do want angry men who are capable of homicide or suicide to have less easy access to the weapons they could use to kill themselves and others.
It seems the public is more tolerate of gangs or thugs killing other gangs or thugs and less tolerant of individual young men attacking strangers, in some cases their significant other, and in other cases their own children.
Why?
JMO
