Another mass shooting...

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(10-02-2015, 03:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Another problem is that the only time gun control gets any airplay is after a mass shooting.  But the issue of mass shootings is really unrelated to gun control.  I would bet that the percentage of gun deaths in mass shootings is only about 1% of the total number of people killed each year by guns in the United States.

The "Gun Violence Problem" is not really that closely related to the "Mass Shooting Problem", but every proposal to help curb "gun violence" is framed to address the "mass shooting" problem.

We have become numb to the whole idea of killing in this country.  The reason that only mass shootings get national coverage is because local news leads off every night with someone getting murdered, it just doesn't have any shock value anymore.