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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zzpat who wrote (69124)	4/30/2018 3:16:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354103

With the quite wide definition now commonly used (the FBI says "four or more") for mass shooting or mass killing the US is far from the only country that has them regularly. Most all large, probably all medium, and many small countries have mass killings regularly. Murder is a more important stat than mass killing and much more than "mass shooting" (again if your dead your dead). The vast majority of murders are in ones and two and threes. There is evidence that gun control is somewhere between a very slight negative to a very slight positive in terms of reducing murder. For mass killings their is a lot less evidence of anything (since they are much less common) but it would seem that if gun control was going to make a big difference at all it would have to be relatively draconian, and even then it wouldn't stop mass shootings let alone mass killings.