Gang violence, not lone-wolf attacks, account for most U.S. mass shootings

"The country’s eyes are trained on high-profile massacres in Texas and Buffalo, but most mass shootings bear little resemblance to those. Of 267 incidents by June 1st this year classified as mass shootings by the Gun Violence Archive, nearly all can be tied to gang beefs, neighborhood arguments, robberies or domestic incidents that spiraled out of control. Indiscriminate slaughter by a lone gunman blasting away at a store, school or some other public place is rare, according to a Washington Times analysis of the archive’s data, accounting for less than 4% of the total. Many, particularly those on the streets or that stem from gang issues, involve multiple shooters spraying bullets."

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soar2newhighs

The anti- gun people, the coward politicians and those pushing no bail laws don’t want to hear or acknowledge that.
As horrific as school shootings are, and no one can deny that fact. Nor can we but don’t often learn of the parents and families whose child (ren) were killed by a stray bullet from a drive by or caught in the cross fire of a gun fight between gangs or even the execution of young children by gang members, as young as 9!

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@BizSuitStacy Chances of getting shot in Belgium, way lower then the US. But you keep holding on to your platitudes and keep pointing fingers at people you don't like, while people keep dieing of a phenomena that everyone in the western world has control over except for you guys.

BizSuitStacy · M

@Kwek00 But it's ok for you to keep holding your platitudes and pointing your fingers at people you don't like and sticking your nose in the business of other countries. And then continue to repeat a bs narrative over and over. True freedom is messy Kweky. Something people like you don't understand.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@BizSuitStacy Must really hurt to have bad statistics, that you can't talk about the actual issue and have to make it about me.

"True freedom"? give me a break, people like yourself don't know the diffrence between negative and positive freedoms. But they just pretend that they are trully free. What a joke. Just like it's a joke that you go "thank for playing Belgium", when you as a country are doing worst then Belgium. Smarten up or be a joke for the rest of life.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

they showed a "cluster map" of gun homicides in Tampa. 90% of them were in a 3 block radius of two neighborhoods.

I guess either the shooters can't afford both guns AND cars. Or they're staking out their targets on their home turf.

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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@BizSuitStacy tell that to victims of rural crime

BizSuitStacy · M

@SusanInFlorida tell that to the residents of Vermont and Wyoming. Two states. One red, one blue. Extremely high gun ownership rate in each state. Firearm homicide levels similar to Europe. Common denominator...no inner cities. You proved that point earlier, and now you're contradicting yourself.

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BizSuitStacy · M

A lot of mass shootings are incidents of domestic violence. Essentially, they are family annihilators. A disgruntled husband comes home, kills his wife, kids and anyone else in the household. Handguns are the most commonly used type of firearm in mass shootings. The media never tells us the details unless it's a psycho with an AR-15.

Convivial · 26-30, F

That's ok then, phew, we can stop worrying about guns now

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@MarmeeMarch Yeah, you can say that again. God thank I don't live there. Over here I can go to the doctors, send my kids to school and the chance of randomly being shot by a frustrated person is a lot less high. And I don't have to compare myself with 3th world countries to feel good about myself either. God thank indeed.

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