"I would start by measuring the magnitude of mass shootings as a problem... That’s an average of 18 deaths per year. For comparison, three times as many die from lightning strikes."
This is a bullshit red herring designed to ignore 99.8% of the gun homicides that take place each year in the US [1]. Gun control works to control much more than just mass shootings.
[1] Using 8K as a rough estimate for annual gun deaths from here:
This is a bullshit red herring designed to ignore 99.8% of the gun homicides that take place each year in the US [1]. Gun control works to control much more than just mass shootings.
[1] Using 8K as a rough estimate for annual gun deaths from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg