Thank you for letting us know what is really going on. I suspected this article made it here because of Orlando, but from what you say this was just a random parking lot late at night, not a target.
OK, Iâm not seeing what youâre seeing here. The stats go back to 1980 in my brief scan; the UT Tower shooting was long before that.
What I do get from that report though is that guns are fucking dangerous, especially if you are in your late teens.
And whatâs with the graph showing that police are getting attacked way more than they used to be?
I still donât get your point - what does that graph (truncated from the DOJ report?) have to do with valid memories of the 3-page newspaper coverage of a mass shooting?
A mass murder on a college campus - and the attendant coverage - is qualitatively different than what you see with an intra-family fight turning violent.
One thing that is indisputable (Figures 42 and 44a, b, and c) is that guns are way more dangerous to the general population than any other weapons and that gun murders are entirely responsible for the 80s bump. And, this doesnât even take into account suicides.
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If gawd had meant for gun-free areas to exist, he would have createdâŚoh, thatâs not working out right, forget what I said.
Stay safe, rick_b.
Are you just arrogant or do you belong to the NRA?
My memory is fine, unlike yours. Before the Whitman massacre in 1966, I had neither heard of nor read in the newspaper about a single incident of that sort⌠Over my high school and college years, they were nowhere near as frequent as they became from the 80s onward. My child born in the early 90s reads or sees news of them with regularity.
My memory as an informed citizen also tells me that the NRA began throwing its weight around and bullying the political process during the peak decades of mass shootings in the USA.
Global Resarch Mass Shootings in America, A Historical Review