teaman

It’s no secret liberals manipulate statistics to get their way on gun control. The meme below makes that point well enough.

But, really, how common are mass public shootings like the kind that happened in Las Vegas? If you look at left-wing outlets, it’s not uncommon to see estimates of literally thousands of mass public shootings taking place in America every year. “Already this year there have been more mass shootings than days in the year,” Connecticut senator Chris Murphy said on October 8th, the 275th day of the year.

How the heck did he arrive at such a number, anyway? By using a mass public shooting definition that’s so loose you’ll have to sort through a huge list before you even come across the words “Pulse nightclub massacre” or “Columbine.” The “Mass Shooting Tracker,” which Murphy cited as proof of his claim, defines a mass public shooting as an incident where four are more people are shot (but not necessarily killed) in a single shooting spree. In such cases, it’s more likely that a mass shooting is actually just feuding gangs having a shootout than a man walking into a public area and opening fire.

The Mass Shooting Tracker’s definition of a mass shooting is much more liberal than what the FBI uses. That’s why liberals often use it to sensationalize gun violence. The FBI’s definition is a tad more strict: Four or more homicides (excluding the shooter) occurring during the same incident. Using that criteria, Mother Jones (a far-left site that was tired of seeing their fellow leftists spreading misinformation on mass shootings) created a database of all mass shootings in America since 1982.

They found that mass shootings are extremely rare, averaging just over 2 per year for the last 36 years. That number has been increasing, however, with an average of 3.7 mass shootings accounting for 38 deaths per year over the last 10 years.

But for comparison purposes, between 1999 and 2015 (the years for which the CDC website tracks mortality rates and causes), more people were killed by:

Urinary catheterization (67 deaths per year)
Contact with powered lawnmower (61 per year)
Contact with hornets, wasps and bees (58 per year)
Legal execution (50 per year)
Lightning (40 per year)
Starvation (39 per year)
Contact with hot tap-water (34 per year)
Bitten by dog (31 per year)
Drowning following fall into bathtub (29 per year)
Fall while being carried by other persons (24 per year)
KILLED IN MASS SHOOTING (23 per year)

Perhaps a chart would help with visualizing that statistic. Below is pictured the small percentage of deaths that are attributable to murder, then the even smaller percentage of murders attributable to mass public shootings.

http://thepoliticalinsider.com/mass-shooting-statistics/?utm_content=1618d0568d4f0b4aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_10_11_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-10-11-17-morning&utm_medium=email

PeterS

So tell me. Do we do nothing to try to prevent few deaths due to catheterization? Why?

teaman

How about spending more money going after demented 'so called' humans. Guns are not the problem and never have been. People are the problem and always will be. The LV shooter was strung out on Valium(look it up). Most, if not all, shooters in past years were on some kind of psycho meds! When a human crosses a certain line, in my mind, they are no longer recognized as human, but instead, maybe a rabid sick animal. The LV shooter along with all other mass shooters are rabid sick pieces of crap. It doesn't matter how they got that way, they need to be stopped and our Nation needs to stop their bleeding heart liberal pet, pampering, and appeasing of these sick pieces of crap!

Do you understand now!!

PeterS

And how can you stop them when every effort to do so the NRA wraps them up in the second amendment and conservatives come running to their protection?

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2017/02/22/republicans-repeal-gun-restriction-mentally-exposes-hypocrisy

teaman

You perverted liberals truly wreck me with your stupid uneducated thinking. The article you posted is FAKE NEWS. Why don't you stop reading crap from the left and spend some time learning. It took me only 2 seconds to refute your stupid lying article and here's the truth;

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/444582/no-gop-did-not-just-repeal-background-check-system-or-give-guns-mentally-il