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half above the deadliest US shootings
in history have happened in the last 6
years Rachel Maddow that a segment about this on her MSNBC show last night
they put all the information up on the Rachel Maddow Blog if you consider
the deadliest mass shootings in American history at this point
those are the ones with 12 or more fatalities you'll find the first one
happens in 1949
the next one happened in nineteen 66
the second half love these incidents half of them
have taken place between 2007
and Monday the day above the Navy Yard shooting
how can we honestly tell ourselves that guns have no role in this
as we have seen widespread
gun ownership increased power
and availability and range in types have guns
and half above the deadliest shootings happened in what is only a six
year period the accelerating speed
let me think I mean we set a different way the
increased frequency love these shootings has to tell us something
and the answer simply is not even more guns that just it just makes no sense
it defies all logic Louis that the answer to
accelerating rates a mass shootings
is even more guns I agree
but at the same time less guns I think we'll only solve
II a tiny part abuse problem in what sense
in that clearly it's it's a social issue
and that's the increased frequency of these attacks
certainly has more to do with
well people losing their minds to be perfectly honest
and deciding to do something about it may be because others have before them
successfully
I I just I just don't see how
getting rated ok for limiting on guns is going to use all
be even half the problem no i agree with you on a couple front so
number one the banning above the so-called assault
rifles an assault-style weapons its gonna just make a tiny tiny dent because
again most most firearms-related deaths
are handgun homicides okay so that I completely agree with and I agree with
you Louis
that there's something social going on that makes it so that when people
experience a certain type of dissatisfaction
or a or or show signs and symptoms
have mental illness there has been a cultural kind of like pre programming to
think about using a gun to resolve the problem whether it is on yourself to
commit suicide
or on others so I absolutely agree with you however I think overall
the wide availability of guns and the completely
a unbalanced and different gun laws across states and cities which allow for
the transport of guns in this this entire game that's played with moving
guns around
straw buyers et cetera that's also part of the problem in other words
all else being equal if there were just less guns around
less if the people who would want to use a gun to solve a problem so to speak
would be able to so I think it's simply a matter of numbers
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