Guns and Mass Shootings
They Almost Equal the Number of Days
Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people are “shot and/or killed” at “the same general time and location.” There have been 307 mass shootings in 2018, which resulted in 502 deaths, including the 12 innocent lives in Thousand Oaks on Wednesday.
To put it into perspective, the U.S. has had nearly as many mass shootings as there have been days in 2018.
In my mind, politics should be a process of prioritizing issues that (truly) present the greatest threat to humans and our civil liberties. (What’s not our greatest threat is a dwindling caravan of Hondurans looking to work and better their lives.)
