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shootings
Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, slingshot, crossbow, or bow. Even the acts of launching/discharging artillery, darts, grenades, rockets and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion process (deflagration).
Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting or in combat. The person involved in the shooting activity is called a shooter. A skilled, accurate shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter, and a person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as his/her marksmanship.
Crime Prevention Research Center released their latest study on mass shootings. Link Here
There are no conclusions, just data.
William Kirk has a Washington Gun Law video with his breakdown.
Not surprisingly, 83% of mass shootings have occurred in gun free zones, aka, free fire zones.
How is this possible in a continent whos gun control laws are much stricter than the US?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/europe/prague-czech-shooting-survivor-disease-intl-hnk/index.html
Interesting tidbit form banta v Ferguson suit in wa regarding hb1240.
Worth reading the plaintiffs arguments from July 15 if interested. Some really well made arguments in it by Paul Clement, the very sharp and respected attorney who won Bruen...
Why not a headline that goes something like...
Criminals firing at Law Enforcement on the rise in Clark County
Woke Azz Beotches. This is all by design.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/jun/08/two-vancouver-police-officers-in-fatal-parking-lot-shooting-involved-in-prior-shootings/
Or they drive cars into school buses and crowds of kids waiting for school buses?
Will they want to ban handguns too? Shotguns?
Doubt they will want to ban cars and ride horses instead. Strange how when people drive drunk and kill someone or use a car as a weapon, no one is calling for a ban...
Its January 22nd, 22 days into the 2023 year. A deadly mass shooting is still unfolding at this moment, that is not the subject of this post please direct any comments about that to the post discussing that one.
this article says there have been "at least 33 mass shootings this year".
What...
I count at least 23. But many that were reported on ring app in last 24 hours do not show up on police blotter so likely a lot more. Been getting ring notices of a shooting about once per hour(ish) which is what prompted me to check the police blotter.
Here is a link to a Fox News article about John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) calling out the FBi for bad reporting on armed citizens stopping shootings.
Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC)
Incompetence, or trying to mislead? You be the judge.
https://rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/mass-shooting.html
Updated April 22, 2022
I do not think they found any evidence that any policy had an impact on mass public shootings. Please have a read your self.
Great article by Greg Ellifritz, with a ton of relevant and interesting information on police shootings (bullet point format) from a two day Force Science Research Center course he took. If you're not familiar with him, Greg is a former police officer, nationally recognized trainer, and prolific...
Gary Kleck is well recognized researcher of firearm use for self defense. His studies have enraged gun control activists as he has pointed out the total number of times a firearm is used in self defense is greatly under reported.
The following is a summary from one of his studies:
Finally...
Up from 600 last year and 300 the year before that on this date.
That number must come from just the officially investigated shootings where they collect casings and such cuz 1000 shootings/289 days = average of 3.4 shootings per day.
Looking at the police blotter I usually see 7-15...
I was thinking about drive by shootings (from automobiles) and what group may have started them in the US. My guess is the Italian Mafia made it popular here, long before other street gangs culturally appropriated the tactic.