re: FBI officially Investigating California shooting as a act of terrorism

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quote: The report, sent to members of Congress on Friday, found that in the 1970s, mass public shootings killed roughly six people a year and injured two.

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Yeah. Given the FBI data cited, you could have zero for 1970-1975 and it wouldn't get you to the average the study quoted.

My guess is that the study is being tricky and using "public mass shootings" for the 70s and not all mass shootings.

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Was anything said about why the explosive they planted did not go off?

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Explosive devices are relatively easy to make.

The real trick is the firing/detonation device. They are notoriously unreliable in IEDs, and vary wildly in proportion to the skill and experience of the bomb maker.

They may have been command detonated and they chose not to because the initial shooting went so well for them.

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One is victims of mass shootings, not necessarily shot or injured

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Only in America could a shooting victim not be shot.

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i like the new term CNN coined "hybrid"

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They also coined "white Hispanic" when they found out George Zimmerman wasn't a white guy from the suburbs. Gotta be a white guy to have a racist angle, so just invent one.

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They also coined "white Hispanic" when they found out George Zimmerman wasn't a white gut from the suburbs. Gotta be a white guy to have a racist angle, so just invent one.

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forgot about that one.

ohh, cnn. you devil.

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Maybe I'm wrong about that,

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Yep

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but that's how I read it

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Wasn't sure you could actually read.

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Not really...I have a 357 mag that will shoot through 1/2 steel plate

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No, you don't.

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LOL does anyone believe this a-hole anymore?

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Americans are pretty stupid, baw.

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FBI retracts bogus mass shooting study
Another troubling aspect of the Obama administration is its politicization of the government’s statistical agencies, which are supposed to be free of politics. In the latest instance, the FBI commissioned a bogus report on mass shootings, which it has now been forced to retract:

Last September the Obama administration produced an FBI report that said mass shooting attacks and deaths were up sharply—by an average annual rate of about 16% between 2000 and 2013. Moreover, the problem was worsening. “The findings establish an increasing frequency of incidents,” said the authors. “During the first 7 years included in the study, an average of 6.4 incidents occurred annually. In the last 7 years of the study, that average increased to 16.4 incidents annually.” . . .

But late last week, J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, two academics at Texas State University who co-authored the FBI report, acknowledged that “our data is imperfect.” They said that the news media “got it wrong” last year when they “mistakenly reported mass shootings were on the rise.”

Alas, but surprisingly, the retraction was issued with much, much less fanfare than the original bogus report.

It’s worth noting that criminologist John Lott debunked the study almost immediately, while the report’s authors dithered for the better part of a year before admitting he was right.

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