The statistics are compelling and frightening. According to Mother Jones, “Between 1982 and 2011, a
mass shooting occurred in the United States every 200 days. Between 2011 and
2014, a mass shooting occurred every 64 days.” As the magazine points out, “The
frequency of mass shootings has tripled since 2011.”
On October 1, 2015 a 26-year-old white male killed eight
people and wounded nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
Just eight days later, on October 9th, there were two school
shootings in one day. One person was killed and three were wounded at Northern
Arizona University. Later in the day, one person was killed and one wounded at
Texas Southern University. There are so many shootings and killings that many
do not even make the evening news crawl on TV screens.
The answer is not more guns. The United States has over 300
million guns in private hands, or nearly one gun for every citizen.
The answer is to find ways to keep guns out of the hands of
those who are bent on mass public executions. (To be continued)
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