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Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Authorities say 14 people were killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting in San Bernardino today. Police have mounted an intense manhunt for the gunmen who fired into a conference hall where county employees had gathered at a service center for people with disabilities. CNN reports: "The suspects were armed with long guns, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters. 'These were people that came prepared. ... They were armed with long guns, not hand guns,' he told reporters. Most of the victims were 'centrally located in one area of the facility,' Burguan said. Police didn't exchange gunfire with the shooters, he added."
Don't rush to the "terrorism" label so fast, it could just be some mentally disturbed individuals.
Once we find out their race and religion we'll be able to make the distinction.
I hate to bring up our imminent arrest during your crazy time, but we gotta move.
The definition of a mass shooting is an event where 3 or more people are shot.
We should do it by total weight, instead.
Chuckle. Because being in compliance with the law is certainly at the top of any mass killers list :D
Donald Trump knows how to make 11 million living, breathing Mexicans 'go away'. I'm sure he can get rid of a few hundred million guns...
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Statistics on Australian homicide show that the number of all homicides went from 355 in 1997 to 297 in 2012. So about a 16% reduction.
Statistics on US homicides over that same time period (1997 to 2012) show the number dropping from 21,606 to 14,827. About a 31% reduction - about double that of Australia.
Seems that eliminating firearms in Australia might have actually slowed the drop in the number of homicides (assuming that Australia would have normally followed the reductions in the US), leading to a relative GAIN in the homicide rate as compared to the US over the same period.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
But not all Muslims are bad, as compared to those gun owners that are all bad.
It was a social center for the developmentally disabled. You think the developmentally disabled should be armed? Like in Texas?
You are welcome on my lawn.