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Lizzie Poppet

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4. What, specifically, do you see as causing this significant shift in trend?

Reply to Flabbergasted (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:10 PM

Dec 2012

Mass shootings, contrary to popular perception, are not on the rise. The rate has been more-or-less flat for three decades:

(source of data: DoJ Bureau of Crime Statistics)

What do you see as being the causal factors behind altering this trend and causing incidents to spike upward? I'm not necessarily disagreeing...I just want an insight into your reasoning.

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Prediction: in the next few years we will see a mass murder epidemic... [View all] Flabbergasted Dec 2012 OP

Kick. Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #1

I think Obama regrets not doing enough on the gun issue in first term. julian09 Dec 2012 #2

That is a paranoid prediction Taitertots Dec 2012 #3

Call it a hunch. In the last couple of weeks we have seen the Oregon, ct and today ny. All rifle Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #5

What, specifically, do you see as causing this significant shift in trend? Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #4

and a longer trend Jim Warren Dec 2012 #8

Lets look at it in a couple of different ways... Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #14

Thank you for the detailed response! Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #15

There's a mass murder every two weeks already _Liann_ Dec 2012 #6

So you are saying mass shootings of at least 6 people happened 25 times this year? Logical Dec 2012 #7

I found sixteen on the first page of a google search Posteritatis Dec 2012 #13

+1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 - Well put and definitely coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #11

Proof of this? Because I don't think it is true. Logical Dec 2012 #12

I don't see this terrible situation unfolding under an 8-year Obama Presidency. Zax2me Dec 2012 #9

We already have a mass murder epidemic, a true public health crisis, and coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #10

I hope you are wrong, but if you are right, the pressure will mount to do something. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #16