It took a little bit of searching, but, after spotting a graphic in the paper the other day about mass shootings in the U.S. going back just the last few years, a long-term graphic was located in this item posted over at Mother Jones.
Needless to say, it’s been quite a year and, after Friday’s shootings, we’re now sure to hear lots of debate on gun control/gun rights issues in 2013.
If mass shootings in the U.S. had dropped back down to the level of two years ago in 2012, then policy makers would likely have been able to avoid the debate that neither political party has seemed interested in lately, but, that’s clearly not been the case.
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Is the root of the problem that Americans have a love affair with guns that continues unabated or that, over time, there’s been a shift and there’s a lot less respect for the sanctity of human life?
Ann Coulter already debunked this “study”, as it omits cases when the shooter was himself shot before killing more people. Create more gun-free zones, you’ll get higher death counts.
This is not to say that there is a societal problem. But death-counts are not the way to approach it.
“Create more gun-free zones, you’ll get higher death counts.” For the life of me, I don’t understand this type of statement.
Here in Canada we have a firearm ownership rate of roughly 15% (1 out of 6 households own a gun), last year we had 170 homicides by shooting.
In the US, where the ownership rate is closer to 45%, last year there were 8583 homicides by shooting.
Anyway, I’m off to do my grocery shopping, and yes, I’m going to leave my door unlocked when I leave the house.