1%? You don't say.
An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America
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1%? You don't say.
Prove me wrong Magoo....
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/the-assault-weapon-myth.html
How many people are killed in mass shootings in the U.S. every year?
This is a difficult question to answer because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” Definitions can vary depending on factors including the number of victims and the circumstances of the shooting.
The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 85 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2018.
The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people – excluding the shooter – are shot or killed. Using this definition, 373 people died in these incidents in 2018.
Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U.S. account for a small fraction of all gun murders that occur nationwide each year.
Hüsker Dü
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That's ironic coming from a fascist.
Paywall, and the part you quoted says nothing about %, and is also irrelevant to the statement you made.
Please continue. You're doing great. Those people who are laughing are not laughing at you.
So you didn't bother reading the NEW YORK TIMES article....you've not proved me wrong Magoo....
"Those people" who are laughing are you and who? The lunatics in your head & ratboy?
Since you apparently did read the NYT article, why didn't you just quote the 1% part?
I can't get back on the NYTimes site either...but
Here ya go MAGOO, one of your favored sources.....and I said about 1%, I've read 1.5% to maybe 2% which are both about 1%.
I don't make these figures up, look them up yourself...never mind, you being Magoo you know everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#cite_note-mass-153
In recent years, the number of public mass shootings has increased substantially, with a steady increase in gun related deaths.[151][152] Although mass shootings are covered extensively in the media, they account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths[19] (only 1 percent of all gun deaths between 1980 and 2008[153]).
Hüsker Dü
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I thought the plumber deemed Wikipedia an enemy of the t nation? . . . and you still use it? Wait, it is an odd day . . .
Dont try to think.
You'll hurt yourself.
In case you have forgotten, your original statement was "Assault rifles account for around 1% of gun deaths."
To which I responded "1%? You don't say."
Bruddah IZ
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Not true. Obviously. Lol!
Hüsker Dü
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He always reacts to a narrative of his own making . . . must be easier for him.
Bruddah IZ
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The new $6 billion plant, which has been under construction since 2017, is an “ethane cracker” plant. It will “crack” ethane, a natural gas liquid found in some natural gas deposits, and turn it into plastic pellets to be used in various plastic products. The plant will produce over 1 million tons of plastic. Environmentalists and community groups complain that the operation will harm the region’s air quality and will increase carbon emissions and plastic pollution.
Some people like pain.
Weird.
You don't say...?
He's clueless...
There have been at least 267 incidents involving assault-style rifles in 2016, including reported weapons thefts, crimes in which the guns were brandished, arrests for illegal possession and other legal interventions in which they weren’t fired.
Those deaths account for about 2 percent of the 6,153 gun deaths and less than 1 percent of the 12,560 gun injuries the Gun Violence Archive has counted so far this year. This tally consists largely of homicides and assaults, but also includes suicides that were part of a murder-suicide. It also counts accidental deaths, the majority of which involve handguns, not rifles.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/assault-weapons-deaths_n_5763109de4b015db1bc8c123
Those deaths account for about 2 percent of the 6,153 gun deaths and less than 1 percent of the 12,560 gun injuries the Gun Violence Archive has counted so far this year. This tally consists largely of homicides and assaults, but also includes suicides that were part of a murder-suicide. It also counts accidental deaths, the majority of which involve handguns, not rifles.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/assault-weapons-deaths_n_5763109de4b015db1bc8c123
Hüsker Dü
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Are you defending the right to kill and maim as many people as possible in a short period of time?
Bruddah IZ
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Oh look!! A new right! You nutters can’t help yourselves.
Do you realize what you are arguing? That despite the near-daily slaughter by assault weapons in public places causing multiple casualties at once, it's not worth discussing assault weapons bans because they're such a small piece of America's gun deaths? So bow many gun deaths do we have overall? How many are from "fighting tyranny" as one or more of you deluded egomaniac pussies believe?
I hope Trump runs on his Second Amendment positions.