Additionally the idea of "mass shooting" itself. Are we talking about school shootings? Work place violence? Drug and gang stuff?
All the motivations for each are different. The ways of dealing with each should be different as well. On Jun 12, 2014 12:43 PM, "LRS Scout" <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Drastically > > One guy with ten guns vs ten guys with ten guns? > > Also they used half the fbi definitions and added sprees. > > It also doesn't define legally purchased, a kid takes his dad's legally > purchased stuff? > On Jun 12, 2014 12:39 PM, "Jerry Milo Johnson" <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> What part of that invalidates the numbers? >> >> Did they not follow the stated methods (using FBI definition of "mass")? >> Did the "guns included might mean owned, not used" skew the type of gun >> stats? >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:32 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Until this quote at the bottom pretty much invalidates all the numbers >> > >> > NOTE: Mother Jones mass data contain both mass and spree shootings of >> more >> > than four people. The FBI defines mass murder as the murder of four or >> more >> > people during an event with no cooling-off period between the murders, >> and >> > a spree killer is someone who kills victims in a short time in multiple >> > locations. "Guns used" may include firearms belonging to the shooter >> that >> > were not used at the crime scene but later recovered elsewhere by >> > investigators. SOURCE: Mother Jones â A Guide to Mass Shootings in >> America >> > < >> > >> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data >> > >, >> > and news reports. >> > On Jun 12, 2014 12:27 PM, "Jerry Milo Johnson" <jmi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> http://newsillustrator.tumblr.com/post/87434489316/id-like-to-say-this-one-was-quick-but-it-would-be >> > > >> > > It shows the "legal vs illegal", and the "long gun vs hand gun" >> questions >> > > pretty clearly. >> > > >> > > Jerry Milo Johnson >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
