The Facts About Mass Shootings
Mon, 12/17/2012 - 7:40pm
Posted by CaJo
The Facts about Mass Shootings
It’s time to address mental health and gun-free zones.
By John Fund
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Mass shootings... no more common than....in past decades, despite...impression given by ...media.
.... high point for mass killings in ... U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of... Minnesota Department of Corrections.
...mass murder in... U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in... first decade of this century.
... chances of being killed in ...mass shooting ... (same) for being struck by lightning.
Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever were ...in... Britain or Germany.