Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by speeder on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:51PM (#31511864)

If you look in countries where guns are banned but are with comparable size to USA you will see mass murders by other methods, even if they are more infrequent than in USA (for example mass stabbings, bombings, arson, or more than once in Brazillian schools: mass murder using axes, and at one time, a crossbow)

Then there are mass murders using vehicles, like it happened in Europe several times in the past 15 years, or mass destruction with vehicle, like the "Killdozer" in USA itself.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by dragontamer on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:32PM (#31512254)

I'm not arguing against that fact.

I'm arguing that in the USA, mass-murder events have 15 to 50 deaths involved. In other countries, the number is just 5 to 20.

Weapons of choice matter. Guns kill more people more reliably than a knife, or even a car.

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