Post by DaveyJones on Aug 6, 2012 10:04:05 GMT -5
Good Stuff....so what do we do about it?
a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin left at least seven people dead.
It's perhaps too easy to forget how many times this has happened. The horrific mass murder at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado on July 20 is the latest in an epidemic of such gun violence over the last three decades. Since 1982, there have been at least 57 mass murders* carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii. We've mapped them below, including details on the shooters' identities, the types of weapons they used, and the number of victims they injured and killed.
Of the 132 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. The arsenal included dozens of assault weapons and high-powered handguns. (See charts below.) Just as Jeffrey Weise used a .40-caliber Glock to massacre students in Red Lake, Minnesota, in 2005, so too did James Holmes when blasting away at his victims in a darkened movie theater.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map
a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin left at least seven people dead.
It's perhaps too easy to forget how many times this has happened. The horrific mass murder at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado on July 20 is the latest in an epidemic of such gun violence over the last three decades. Since 1982, there have been at least 57 mass murders* carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii. We've mapped them below, including details on the shooters' identities, the types of weapons they used, and the number of victims they injured and killed.
Of the 132 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. The arsenal included dozens of assault weapons and high-powered handguns. (See charts below.) Just as Jeffrey Weise used a .40-caliber Glock to massacre students in Red Lake, Minnesota, in 2005, so too did James Holmes when blasting away at his victims in a darkened movie theater.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map