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These countries also have safety nets and generally give a shit about their citizens. The usa doesn't have any of that.
We need to end qualified immunity here big time. Also something other countries(western) don't have. 1 in 38ish deaths via firearms are from police. That's including suicides which account for 66% of all gun deaths in the usa.
No there is not. This is the issue with data from the anti2a crowd, it's like talking to the anti-abortion groups...made up and fully exaggerated shit.
https://www.cnn.com/us/mass-shootings-fast-facts/index.html
It was one per day for a while there, but the numbers have been up the last few years.
So yes, two or three per day.
As a note, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting where 4 or more people are injured or killed, not including the gunman.
Don't know how many times I've got to say this but the GVA is junk data.
Here is one from the 2024 list....it states 1 dead 9 injured...but if you go to the article referenced you have to go to another to see that...gang shooting surprise....
https://www.wsmv.com/2024/10/14/police-say-five-people-involved-jefferson-street-mass-shooting-had-gang-affiliations/
Even better is the 9 people injured, were injured after the shooting, and not from the gun fire(usually crowds panic and people get hurt from running). So no not what should be considered a mass shooting but it's there because of some bullshit definition. The public hears mass shooting and thinks random person shot up a mall....not "gang members got into a fight and shot each other"
Are you saying that a gang shooting isn't a mass shooting? Why? Are they not people?
In countries with sensible gun laws, the gangs don't have guns.
The gangs still exist, because we're humans, but they don't have easy guns and thus, there are no mass shootings,
No it's not what the public thinks of a mass shooting. You can stop pretending it is.
In countries with sensible gun laws ...they never had 400+ million firearms in civ hands to start...they also aren't running a war on drugs that creates gangs like ours...we literally created the cartels from our war on drugs.
The gangs in other Western countries are like bikers gangs that go to ihop here in the states... they're a fuckin joke.
Don't know how many times I've got to say this but the GVA is junk data.
Here is one from the 2024 list....it states 1 dead 9 injured...but if you go to the article referenced you have to go to another to see that...gang shooting surprise....
https://www.wsmv.com/2024/10/14/police-say-five-people-involved-jefferson-street-mass-shooting-had-gang-affiliations/
Even better is the 9 people injured, were injured after the shooting, and not from the gun fire(usually crowds panic and people get hurt from running). So no not what should be considered a mass shooting but it's there because of some bullshit definition. The public hears mass shooting and thinks random person shot up a mall....not "gang members got into a fight and shot each other"