When a mass shooting occurs, conservative media rush to blame mental health, video games, a lack of armed people present, and even liberal values -- anything but the fact that the shooter was able to get a gun.
But the single proximate factor in all mass shootings, and in all gun violence really, is that it is easy for dangerous people to access high-powered firearms. Lack of access to firearms typically makes it difficult for would-be mass murderers to carry out their plans. For instance, experts say mass stabbings are extremely rare in the United States. To the contrary, 69 percent of all homicides are committed with a gun. Of 37 public mass killings since 2006, 33 involved firearms, while the Boston Marathon bombings, an incident involving a car, and two cases of arson accounted for the other four incidents.
Furthermore, academic research has linked the easy availability of firearms to homicide. According tonumerous studies, "where there are more guns, both men and women are at higher risk for homicide, particularly firearm homicide." Compared to other high income nations which typically more strongly regulate the availability of firearms, the United States' gun homicide rate is 19.5 times higher, leading to an overall homicide rate that is 6.9 times higher. Research has also shown, "across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides. These results often hold even when the United States is excluded."
we know by now the truth of facts will never be posted by NRA and it's republican and some dems gun prostitutes, we haven't heard much about NRA scoring those who care about deaths of kids and Americans and vote their conscious wonder why is NRA ring losing it's luster like Limbaugh's, and candidates no longer fear them or is it just they confirm their support for a gun in every pot for every family?
we also know that no restriction or anti gun laws have seen the light of day don't believe that is by chance more so a committed political complicity to keep them in your pocket in your home in your child's school and in your child's back pack, are you voting for that?
VIDEO GAMES
After Fort Hood Shooting, Fox Military Analyst Ralph Peters Cited Video Games As A Reason Mass Shootings Are "Semi-Approved In Society."
Fox News Segment Linked Video Games To Recent Mass Shootings In Connecticut, Colorado, And Arizona.
After Navy Yard Shooting, Fox News Linked Seven Mass Killers To Video Games.
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/17/13]
MENTAL HEALTH
Fox News Graphic Bizarrely Suggested The "Motive" In The Fort Hood Shootings Was "Mental Illness."
After Navy Yard Shooting, Fox News Host Martha MacCallum Scapegoated People With Mental Health Conditions
After Columbia, Maryland Mall Shooting, Fox News Psychiatrist Said "It Isn't The Gun" Before Baselessly Speculating About Shooter's Mental State.
One Year After Newtown, Frequent Fox Guest Ann Coulter Claimed That Mass Shootings "Correlate With Not Locking Up Crazy People."
NOT ENOUGH GUNS
After Navy Yard Shooting Conservative Commentators Falsely Characterized Facility As A "Gun-Free Zone" That Invited Attack.
After Aurora Movie Theater Shooting, Glenn Beck Claimed Shooter "Wouldn't Have Gotten Off More Than Four Shots" If Armed Individuals Present.
just a few, each one has a text with it and there are more than this, hard to believe how children and teens and adult lives are less than some Americans gun fetishes. we also know this is about politicians paving the way for gun manufactures and NRA to profit from American deaths by WMD and multi load clips all in the name of a twisted interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
it's curious how 1st amendment gives you "free" speech and the second gives you an okay to defend yourself for what you said "free", we should regulate certain vitriolic speech and lower the supposed need to protect yourself against yourself.
