Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Common in the US?

[baldeagle]

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In a word - no.

[RAM4171]

I agree it is societal decay coupled with media showboating for the left.

[JustMe]

According to one stat I heard over the weekend--in the past 20 years, you are more than 6 times(3600 times) to be struck by lightening as to be killed in a mass shooting(512)

[Oldgringo]

Mass murders in the USA are not new. Check out Wounded Knee, Mountain Meadows, Bath MI school, Happy Land social club & Sand Creek to name a few. Of the five foregoing examples, guns played a part in 60% of the murders.

No, mass murders are not becoming more common. What is more common is a media which arguably glorifies the shootings to serve its self-serving, liberal interests....IMO.

[jmra]

Mass murders in the USA are not new. Check out Wounded Knee, Mountain Meadows, Bath MI school, Happy Land social club & Sand Creek to name a few. Of the five foregoing examples, guns played a part in 60% of the murders.

No, mass murders are not becoming more common. What is more common is a media which arguably glorifies the shootings to serve its self-serving, liberal interests....IMO.

And of course they never get the facts straight.

[Beiruty]

Also, population has increased over the last 40 yrs. So, per 100,000 rate is declining like all other murder rates!

[jmra]

If Mass shootings were becoming more popular, I would think the Catholics would be up in arms.

[Jumping Frog]

If Mass shootings were becoming more popular, I would think the Catholics would be up in arms.

This Catholic is armed while at Mass, but sometimes I am not sure I am "up".

[anygunanywhere]

If Mass shootings were becoming more popular, I would think the Catholics would be up in arms.

This Catholic is armed while at Mass, but sometimes I am not sure I am "up".

Me three.

Anygunanywhere