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Originally Posted by Humerox
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This New York Times article researched the frequency of mass murders. It found during the 20th century there were about one to two mass murders per decade until 1980. Then for no apparent reason they spiked, with nine during the 1980s and 11 in the 1990s. Since the year 2000 there have been at least 27, including the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
It's not the guns, it's what type of guns they are.
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According to experts (not you), Mass killings are not increasing in frequency. Here are some notes from the article:
- And yet those who study mass shootings say they are not becoming more common.
- There is no pattern, there is no increase,
- Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, he says, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning.
- while mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, according to his data.
Move past your alarmist mentality and put aside your emotion and fear and deal with facts. I get it, guns scare you, but the facts don't backup your reality. If they take away the guns in will be in spite of reason and not because of it.
Story from the AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/no-rise-mass-k...185700637.html
It's posted by AP and reported by all major news cycles.