Thursday, August 06, 2015
America, America - A Country Awash in Guns
Sorrowing Lies My Land
Headlines about gun violence -- deaths and injuries from gunshots -- have become regular features. Inescapable.
In US, 204 mass shootings in 203 days
DC's Summer of Gun Violence
- NEWSER) – It's the worst kind of synchronicity: A websitethat tracks mass shootings in the US had logged 203 through Wednesday. It hasn't caught up with last night's rampage in a Louisiana theater, but when it does, that will be No. 204—and yesterday was the 204th day of the year, notes the Washington Post. The Mass Shooting Tracker is a crowd-sourced tool from an anti-gun forum at Reddit calledGuns Are Cool, and it defines "mass shooting" as incident in which at least four people were shot. Not all of the incidents resulted in deaths.
DC's Summer of Gun Violence
What they do in the name of Second Amendment !
NRA: "Guns don't kill people, People Do".
NRA: "Guns don't kill people, People Do".
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Labels: America, Gun Violence, Guns, NRA