Because people are not permitted to legally carry guns everywhere. If everyone had a gun, would you go shooting people? NO, you'd get shot! Shootings mostly occur at schools, colleges, courthouses, all the places the most crazy people are at and non crazy people can't carry guns.
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In response to the above - then why are there not as many shootings in other countries where not everyone has a gun?
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On average, there have been around 10 school shootings in the United States per year over the past decade. These incidents include any discharge of a firearm on school grounds, regardless of casualties.
76 mass shootings from 1996 to 2012
Data not out yet.
There were literally millions of shootings in the 1960s and 1970s. Consider all the wars in so many places on so many continents during that period. Even if you count only fatal shootings, the number is incalculably great. Millions were killed in Cambodia alone, though many of those killings were done with non-firearm weapons, and thus were not technicaly shootings, Deaths from shootings, machete hackings, and bombs are difficult to differentiate. The Asian and African wars during the period produced millions of casualties. Criminal and police shootings accounted for hundreds of thousands more. Perhaps you mean famous shootings? This would depend on where they took place. The more unusual, and the more significant a political shooting, the more famous it will be. The handful of political shootings in the US during the period is tiny compared the the numbers of political killings in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, but are more famous because they were more globally significant, and in general happened much less often.
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On average, approximately 30 children are killed in mass shootings in the United States each year. Mass shootings are defined as incidents where four or more people are killed by gunfire.
It depends on how many people get shot.
There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed, in addition to the 2 shooters who committed suicide in the Columbine high school shootings.
There is so set answer. Bullying , a lot of violent things they did as kids.
Cumbria shootings was born on 1957-11-27.
Blackwater Baghdad shootings happened in 2007.