re: Dayton, OH bar mass shooting - 10 dead, 27 wounded

The little shite used a makeshift firearm.

From his mother's Facebook-





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Yep. Wonder how long it takes and how it will happen

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6.5% of our population commits 50% of all murders. It's actually a much smaller number than that when you take into account that they are mostly ages 15-35.

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It’s even smaller when you realize that not all members of that group are murderers.

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I feel like we're about to hit critical mass on this shite. frick these guys for the horror they're responsible for and frick them again for what's about to happen to decent law abiding American gun owners because of them.

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Taking guns away isn’t the solution anyway. If a crazy person wants to do mass damage he or she could just as easily run a truck through a mass crowd.

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These kind of actions have been going on since the beginning of time. To think this is something new you’d have to be a fool or living under the ocean.

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yeah man

But there is data showing gun legislation CAN make a difference. Don’t give up so quickly. :)

CITATION AND CONTENT:
State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross sectional time series
Accepted 28 January 2019
Abstract
Objective To determine whether restrictiveness-permissiveness of state gun laws or gun ownership are associated with mass shootings in the US.

Design Cross sectional time series.

Setting and population US gun owners from 1998-2015.

Exposure An annual rating between 0 (completely restrictive) and 100 (completely permissive) for the gun laws of all 50 states taken from a reference guide for gun owners traveling between states from 1998 to 2015. Gun ownership was estimated annually as the percentage of suicides committed with firearms in each state.

Main outcome measure Mass shootings were defined as independent events in which four or more people were killed by a firearm. Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting System from 1998-2015 were used to calculate annual rates of mass shootings in each state. Mass shooting events and rates were further separated into those where the victims were immediate family members or partners (domestic) and those where the victims had other relationships with the perpetrator (non-domestic).

Results Fully adjusted regression analyses showed that a 10 unit increase in state gun law permissiveness was associated with a significant 11.5% (95% confidence interval 4.2% to 19.3%, P=0.002) higher rate of mass shootings. A 10% increase in state gun ownership was associated with a significant 35.1% (12.7% to 62.7%, P=0.001) higher rate of mass shootings. Partially adjusted regression analyses produced similar results, as did analyses restricted to domestic and non-domestic mass shootings.

Conclusions States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states.

Possessing a handgun would be a mandatory 15 years.

Yes, things would change very fast. There’d be a civil war for starters; and you would, mercifully, be dead.