Jeßus wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:16:12 -0500, Jim Elbrecht >
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:42:35 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:39:20 -0600, (z z) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would say every school across America should do a locker search before
>>>> school begins and a body/belongings search of every child coming to
>>>> school tomorrow morning.
>>>>
>>>> Every parent needs to check and doublecheck the inaccessibility at home
>>>> of their guns-these events will stir their child's curiousity about "the
>>>> family guns." The big news will be an innocent child shooting someone.
>>>>
>>>> Teachers with guns in their purses? Bad idea. Elementary age school
>>>> children have been known to steal from the teacher's purse. I know
>>>> specifically of a second grader...
>>> Just for the sake or perspective, statistically in the U.S, people
>>> have a better chance of being hit by lightning than being shot by a
>>> psycho. Mind you, the odds of being shot and killed by a police
>>> officer is also higher... mass shootings have been in decline since
>>> around 2000, the peak was in 1929.
>> The graph I saw this afternoon showed a peak in the 90s.
>> [note this is from 2010]
>> http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/01/op...ass-shootings/
>>
>> Where's your data?
>
> Was going on memory, but will see what I can find.


Your data doesn't jive because one of you is talking about mass
shootings and the other, mass murders. (the worst massacres have not
involved guns, and there was a really bad one in 1927)