It was only a year ago that the Supreme Court issued a landmark Second Amendment opinion that expanded gun rights nationwide and established that firearms rules must be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition.”
When the media uses that term, I think nearly all of us expect an event as defined on the left side of the chart. And I doubt anyone is going to come in here and call those sources conservative think tanks.
Even if we take the most generous number and divide that by population (920/330,000,000), your odds of being killed in a mass shooting are infinitesimal (.000278). I have no worries at all.
What do ya figure the odds are on becoming extinct driving to the grocery store? Now that is what scares me.
Weird, and yet in other countries no one gets shot to death at all.
Odd, other nations dont seem to have a running weekly gun wielding toddler for 2 years and counting. Strange, thats not a normal thing elsewhere.
Huh. Wonder why no one else has to talk about how statistically, a shooting every day is actually not a big deal? I dont get why no one else has these conversations.
The criteria for the mass shooting tracker, the largest number on that chart, is perfectly reasonable. You do understand why shootings are bad beyond the direct deaths of those from being shot at and the location their corpses have to be removed from, do you not?
You’re really going to look the other way because when somebody opened fire on multiple people (at least 3), some of those people survived? Or the shooter went to another location in between? Oh but its okay because it might not happen to you directly. Might not even be your parent or your child or your friend or even your town, but somebody else’s. So no worries.
At worst, you are implying it’s the location’s fault or the victims’ fault for being out in the open; if everyone just had more security then the shooter would’ve just taken their pot shots at people around town. Well, shoot, if that makes it okay then let’s just put a TSA line in front of every grocery store, elementary school, restaurant, etc. Bulletproof windows too. Heck, put em on your cars. Bulletproof vests for everyone!! If you didn’t die, it didn’t happen. Yes, that’ll solve everything! Just don’t go walking around outside or at parks, those are just defacto shooting ranges now; it doesn’t count as a mass shooting anyways if you just shoot at one or two people and move on.
…it’s all the same, man. It shouldn’t be happening. Its the same exact perpetrator on the same exact decision to kill. You prevent that person from making that decision then you prevent all of the death and injuries and terror and trauma that it causes.
Not to mention, as the other commenter did, it’s from 2021. We break new records on each of those numbers, each and every year. Hell, you’ll have to fact check me on this but think we broke it in a month this year.
Even if it wasn’t incredibly biased, the infographic’s info isn’t even updated for those particular sources. They’ve literally all gone up since this dumb meme infographic was made in February.
So according to your infographic, there was a minimum of 6 mass shootings, in which 43 people died, in 2021…so I guess 6 mass shootings per year is okay with you? What’s your limit? About how many mass shootings would you say you are okay with per year?
Or is it all about the odds? As long as your odds are low enough, you don’t care? So at what point do you think we should take action?
What about shark attacks? There were 81 shark attacks, where 9 people died, in 2021. According to your logic, it’s not worth trying to mitigate those attacks at all, right? I mean, the odds are so low, right? Why bother?
What the media calls a mass shooting is rarely what we’re picturing in our heads.
Infographic with sources.
When the media uses that term, I think nearly all of us expect an event as defined on the left side of the chart. And I doubt anyone is going to come in here and call those sources conservative think tanks.
Even if we take the most generous number and divide that by population (920/330,000,000), your odds of being killed in a mass shooting are infinitesimal (.000278). I have no worries at all.
What do ya figure the odds are on becoming extinct driving to the grocery store? Now that is what scares me.
Weird, and yet in other countries no one gets shot to death at all.
Odd, other nations dont seem to have a running weekly gun wielding toddler for 2 years and counting. Strange, thats not a normal thing elsewhere.
Huh. Wonder why no one else has to talk about how statistically, a shooting every day is actually not a big deal? I dont get why no one else has these conversations.
That “infographic” and statistic is such transparent cope man…
Which part is untrue?
The criteria for the mass shooting tracker, the largest number on that chart, is perfectly reasonable. You do understand why shootings are bad beyond the direct deaths of those from being shot at and the location their corpses have to be removed from, do you not?
You’re really going to look the other way because when somebody opened fire on multiple people (at least 3), some of those people survived? Or the shooter went to another location in between? Oh but its okay because it might not happen to you directly. Might not even be your parent or your child or your friend or even your town, but somebody else’s. So no worries.
At worst, you are implying it’s the location’s fault or the victims’ fault for being out in the open; if everyone just had more security then the shooter would’ve just taken their pot shots at people around town. Well, shoot, if that makes it okay then let’s just put a TSA line in front of every grocery store, elementary school, restaurant, etc. Bulletproof windows too. Heck, put em on your cars. Bulletproof vests for everyone!! If you didn’t die, it didn’t happen. Yes, that’ll solve everything! Just don’t go walking around outside or at parks, those are just defacto shooting ranges now; it doesn’t count as a mass shooting anyways if you just shoot at one or two people and move on.
…it’s all the same, man. It shouldn’t be happening. Its the same exact perpetrator on the same exact decision to kill. You prevent that person from making that decision then you prevent all of the death and injuries and terror and trauma that it causes.
Not to mention, as the other commenter did, it’s from 2021. We break new records on each of those numbers, each and every year. Hell, you’ll have to fact check me on this but think we broke it in a month this year.
Even if it wasn’t incredibly biased, the infographic’s info isn’t even updated for those particular sources. They’ve literally all gone up since this dumb meme infographic was made in February.
So according to your infographic, there was a minimum of 6 mass shootings, in which 43 people died, in 2021…so I guess 6 mass shootings per year is okay with you? What’s your limit? About how many mass shootings would you say you are okay with per year?
Or is it all about the odds? As long as your odds are low enough, you don’t care? So at what point do you think we should take action?
What about shark attacks? There were 81 shark attacks, where 9 people died, in 2021. According to your logic, it’s not worth trying to mitigate those attacks at all, right? I mean, the odds are so low, right? Why bother?