Repeat after me: "there is no mass shooting epidemic." Even with 2012 and the shootings in Colorado...
Repeat after me: "there is no mass shooting epidemic."
Even with 2012 and the shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, we had just over 2 deaths per 10 million Americans due to mass public shootings that year. Not per thousand, or per 100,000, or per million ... per 10 million. The numbers are so small that any statistical comparison is meaningless, because a single incident can change the numbers a lot.
Even with 2012 and the shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, we had just over 2 deaths per 10 million Americans due to mass public shootings that year. Not per thousand, or per 100,000, or per million ... per 10 million. The numbers are so small that any statistical comparison is meaningless, because a single incident can change the numbers a lot.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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