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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by DanBC on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:01AM (#16399978)
You have to go back to 2008, to a series of events that killed 170 people.

About 60 people have been killed in mass shotings in the US in the 48 days of this year.

> In America, mass shootings only seem to occur in "gun-free zones", where perpetrators know there is little chance of armed interdiction before they have accomplished their mission.

No. In America mass shootings are so common they're not widely reported. You're cherry picking mass-shootings to fit your narrative. If you look at all of them you'll see they occur all over, and not just in "gun free" zones. This is a consistant tactic used by gun rights advocates: exclude any gun violence they can to reduce the numbers. "This mass shooting doesn't count, it's gang violence", "These deaths don't count, they're suicide", "This isn't a mass shooting, because only 3 people died"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/10/kentucky-murd...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/three-police-offi...

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/art...

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/tag/mass-shooting-detroit/

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-pbs...

etc etc (This is an incomplete list of February's mass shootings.)

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by CompanionCubee on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:40PM (#16403186)
>This is a consistant tactic used by gun rights advocates: exclude any gun violence they can to reduce the numbers. "This mass shooting doesn't count, it's gang violence", "These deaths don't count, they're suicide", "This isn't a mass shooting, because only 3 people died"

The irony is that your sibling poster also wrote this: "Mumbai attack was a terrorist attack. My response was in context of mass shooting in schools."

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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by sanmon3186 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:10PM (#16404235)
If I may suggest, please read 2008 Mumbai attack and see if there are really any parallels. There is a difference when someone from a foreign land acquire weapons outside and attacks you (unless I am missing the point you are trying to make).
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Re:90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting dri... by masonic on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:53PM (#16461692)
You're reduced to counting police shooting a murderer who shot one person as a "mass shooting"?
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