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Sheriff: Traffic stop turns up assault rifles, 900 rounds

d0gbreath said:
There were many. AZ doesn't even require a carry license. Many of them were interviewed and said pretty much the same thing. When the bullets were flying, and no one knew where they were coming from, they didn't dare pull their weapon for fear that they would be targeted as the shooter. Smart people. Besides, who would they shoot at?
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Let's see a link showing many concert goers were armed.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Yes, they however generally don't work and have so little amunition that they cannot be practiced with or have enough bullets to actully have a mass shooting.

Guns in the hands of criminals are bad. But not that bad, criminals generally are rational and don't want to get a massive prison sentence so the gun is there just to scare people.

Mad people with guns are a different story.
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I encourage you to really read your comment. Then contrast that with reality. The US averages 2...TWO...of what would considered a typical 'mass shooting' a year. Typically, as tragic as they are, the number of deaths attributed to mass shootings seldom add up to a hundred in any given year. (These are traditional 'mass shootings'...not the drug house mass shootings we are seeing more of). Comparatively, there are somewhere around 9500 dead bodies attributed to 'guns in the hands of criminals' every year.

And we wont compare the suicides by firearm in the US as we know that our countries suicide rates are virtually identical and most in the UK manage to take their own lives in a closet without a firearm.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Says the man who wants the number of people shot not to be the definition of mass shooting but wants only those killed to count....
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If 4 gang bangers are killed in a rumble, is that a mass shooting?
 
Tim the plumber said:
Says the man who wants the number of people shot not to be the definition of mass shooting but wants only those killed to count....
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That is the FBI's definition after all. They count how many people died rather than shot.
 
VanceMack said:
I encourage you to really read your comment. Then contrast that with reality. The US averages 2...TWO...of what would considered a typical 'mass shooting' a year. Typically, as tragic as they are, the number of deaths attributed to mass shootings seldom add up to a hundred in any given year. (These are traditional 'mass shootings'...not the drug house mass shootings we are seeing more of). Comparatively, there are somewhere around 9500 dead bodies attributed to 'guns in the hands of criminals' every year.

And we wont compare the suicides by firearm in the US as we know that our countries suicide rates are virtually identical and most in the UK manage to take their own lives in a closet without a firearm.
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Do you consider 4 people shot not a mass shooting?
 
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