The U.S. has experienced a massive increase in the number of mass shootings the last 30 years, with a mass shooting defined by the Mass Shooting Tracker as four or more people shot in one event. As The Washington Post reported last July: The Mass Shooting Tracker is different from other shooting databases in that […]
Emotions range from anger to numbness in the wake of yet another mass shooting in the U.S. So far 2015 has seen 275 days with 294 mass shootings – incidents where 4 or more people are killed or injured by gunfire. The latest and worst mass shooting so far this year occurred yesterday at Oregon’s Umpqua […]
In the wake of another senseless mass shooting, a visibly frustrated President Barack Obama addressed the nation, calling on the people and Congress to make a change. During his speech Obama contrasted efforts to combat terrorism with the lack of action on senseless gun violence. “We spend over 1 trillion dollars and pass countless laws […]
Clearly frustrated, President Obama gave a fiery speech on Thursday in the wake of the Oregon shooting. Sounding exasperated, Obama said the response to such shootings has all become all too common and that nothing changes. NBC News reports that “at least 10 people were killed and seven others were injured when a gunman who […]
Mike Weisser of the Huffington Post, otherwise known as ‘Mike the Gun Guy,’ had an interesting post this week about how “The Gun Lobby’s Own Publications Expose the Fantasy of the ‘Good Guy With a Gun.’“ Weisser begins by relating the “story out of Detroit where a legally-armed private citizen yanked out a gun and […]