{"id":16393,"date":"2015-10-02T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16393"},"modified":"2015-10-02T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:27:18","slug":"under-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/under-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my perspective, it seems that the rights of the few (NRA etc) out weigh the rights of the many, the people of the US.  There are too many shootings, and for what?<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been only 274 days this year. The shootings are captured in this calendar, drawn from the the Mass Shooting Tracker<\/a>. The tracker draws some criticism because its definition is broader than the FBI's definition<\/a>, which requires three or more people to be killed<\/em> by gunfire. But the broader definition is nonetheless a useful one, because it captures many high-profile instances of violence — like the Lafayette theater shootings<\/a> — that don't meet the FBI's criteria.<\/p>\n

… And of course, there's the broader universe of nearly 10,000 people killed and 20,000 wounded in nearly 40,000 gun violence incidents so far this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more at the <\/span>Washington Post<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to gun massacres, the United States is tragically exceptional: There are more public mass shootings in the United States than in any other country in the world, according to a new study. …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The 90 U.S. mass shootings are nearly a third of the 292 such attacks globally for that period. While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings. …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What's behind all these mass slayings in the United States?<\/p>\n