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Quite a few actually. State background checks are actually more effective than the NICS system.
But this theory of gun laws must have existed for 200 years is ridiculous too. We could be stopping more shootings by making private sales illegal. We could stop many more by restricting to bolt action and revolvers. Both of which aren't going to pass the test simply because technology has advanced since then.
I mean, Maggoty answered your question fairly, and then you changed what you asked him and moved the goal posts. That seems a bit dishonest to me.
Moving the goal posts after you ask a question, then lying about it, is not dishonet?
Pull the other foot, please!
No way to stop this says only country where this regularly happens.
except for the reason being the prevelancy and availability of deadly firearms with no barriers to entry, that is a special reason that is forbidden to be discussed because everyone has a fantasy about being able to take on the US military in a one man coup.
and yet they don't
what the hell kind of statement is that? You should edit that comment out and apologize as it's completely uncalled for.
yes, as the internet is a series of signals, both electromagnetic and orthographic all any of us can do is signal things on the internet. It's not like I can physically do anything online, it being a virtual medium. How would you suggest I communicate without signaling anything, and how do you recommend behaving if not according to the virtues that I personally hold?
I assure you I show none of my irl friends my comment history- do you?
Says the guy who accused me of not caring about children dying?!?!
Bombings were much more common than mass shootings, and much deadlier, until they declined in popularity about 20 years ago. There are still random bombings, (and tons of bomb threats) they just don't get nearly as much media attention.
Where firearms are heavily restricted, bombings are much more common.
2001-~~2003~~ edit typo: 2013
Deaths by guns: 406,500
Deaths by all other forms of terrorism: 3,380
Now show us mass shootings.
And clarify what areas you're talking about, because it certainly isn't the US, and it certainly isn't global.
Mass Shootings is a propaganda statistic devised to reduce numbers. Why do I care if 3 people got shot instead of 2? It doesn't make those 2 people any less shot.
And the other half of my comment: your numbers aren't from the US (way too high) nor are they from the world as a whole (way too low.). Where are you getting them from?
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/americans-killed-gun-violence-vs-terrorism-n437246
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-gun-violence/index.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/american-deaths-from-gun-violence-vs-terrorism-in-one-chart-179407/
So, you got the numbers for 14 years of US gun deaths, and then claimed they occurred in a 2 year period?
typo. 2003 should read 2013.
At least two thirds of them according to this paper https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40621-021-00330-0
He's one of the idiots.