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9. Mass shootings happen in clusters for reasons that nobody currently understands

Reply to Courtesy Flush (Reply #8)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 07:22 PM

Jan 2013

Hopefully the re-introduction of CDC research can help that.

We're in one of those clusters now, in the context of a decades-long drop in violent crime in general.

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Gun owners participated in a self-fulfilling prophecy [View all] Courtesy Flush Jan 2013 OP

Sorry about all of that, but the rest of us have to live with the very apparent FACT that some patrice Jan 2013 #1

Yup, the more guns made and sold, the more killings. ErikJ Jan 2013 #2

They can still simply sell the guns they no longer want regjoe Jan 2013 #3

I didn't say they no longer wanted them Courtesy Flush Jan 2013 #4

Shooting incidents increased? Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #5

The gun lobby (NRA) has opposed any kind of background checks doc03 Jan 2013 #6

Nice rant - one factual correction. Gun violence is down not up. nt hack89 Jan 2013 #7

I stand corrected. Courtesy Flush Jan 2013 #8

Mass shootings happen in clusters for reasons that nobody currently understands Recursion Jan 2013 #9