Gun Laws &
Statistics
There have been 62 mass shootings wherein 5 or more people
were either shot or killed from the early 1980’s to now; 41 times pistols were
used, 12 times shotguns or some type of hunting-styled rifle was used, and 9
times semi-automatic rifles were used (14 percent).
Of the 62 incidents that we are able to track, 42 of the
shooters had some kind of mental illness or mental illness history of some
kind, 16 of the shooters had unknown or unclear history of mental illness, and
only 4 of the shooters had no mental illness history.
Chicago, Illinois, has some of the country’s strictest gun
laws, and because of this, some might think that it should be one of the safest
cities in the America. However, in 2012, 1.5 people were killed every day after
being shot by a bad guy with a gun. That
makes 532 people killed in 2012 alone.
- March 25, 2008, Sitka, Alaska: An 18 year killed 4 people with a 5-inch knife.
- June 8, 2001, Osaka, Japan: A school janitor killed 8 children with a kitchen knife.
- July 1, 2008, Shanghai, China: A man stabbed 6 police officers to death and wounded 4 others with a knife.
According to the FBI’s website, during the time
period between 2007 until 2011, there were 8,967 people that were murdered with
knives or cutting instruments; during that same time period, there were 3,918
people that were murdered with either rifles or shotguns.
And, of course, murderers aren’t restricted to
just sharp objects and guns. Some have used explosives:
- April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City, Okla.: Timothy McVay murdered 168 people and injured 680 when he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building using, among other components, fertilizer.
- May 18, 1927, Bath, Mich.: A man murdered 44 people, 38 of which were elementary school children. Another 58 were wounded when he blew up the Bath Consolidated School. To date, this is still the worst school massacre in US history.
- November 1, 1955: John “Jack” Gilbert Graham murdered 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother’s suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629. The bomb detonated shortly after takeoff.
The conversation should not be about guns. Let’s get off our ‘Politically Correct’ pedestals and acknowledge what this conversation is really about…
It’s about how our nation should respond to mental illness
It’s about the spiritual reality of Good and Evil – a spiritual reality that many in our nation do not want to acknowledge.
Others transportation:
- September 11, 2001: Nineteen terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 people on American soil by intentionally flying passenger planes into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. A fourth plane was also hijacked and was intended to be crashed into the U.S. Capitol, but passengers overcame the hijackers and the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa.
- June 8, 2008, Tokyo, Japan: A man drove his truck into a crowd of people, killing three. He then exited the vehicle and stabbed 12 people. In all, seven people were killed as a result.
- April 30, 2009, Apeldoorn, Netherlands: A man intentionally drove his car into a group of people amassed for a parade. He killed six and seriously injured another 12 before dying from the crash himself.
Others
blunt objects:
- August 6, 2004, Deltona, Fla.: Four men decided to bludgeon 6 people using baseball bats because they wanted to steal an Xbox belonging to one of the victims. All of the attackers were old enough to buy firearms.
- July 20, 2009, Sydney, Australia: A family of 5 was bludgeoned to death as they slept. Most likely baseball bats were used in the attack.
According to the FBI’s website, during the time
period between 2007 until 2011, there were 2,918 people that were murdered with
blunt objects (baseball bats, hammers, etc.), during that same time period,
there were 1,874 people that were murdered with rifles.
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