Lightning kills more people in this country than mass shooters. we are a country of 300 million. 100 million of us own or have access to a gun. there are as many guns as there are cars in this Country. Cars killed over 30,000 last year, guns killed a third of that. Assault style rifles are a tiny fraction of those deaths, and maybe more than half of those are officers defending themselves. 50 percent more people have been murdered by something other than a gun, (hands, feet, knife, bat) There are more people carrying concealed and open carry firearms than ever before, and as that number has been increasing over the decades, coincidentally, firearm murders have been on a consistent decline. (maybe related, maybe not, dunno) There are less firearm murders today than in the last 30-40 or so years. In This Country, so far anyways, we have averaged a mass shooting such as the recent tragedy, about one incident, for every 236 years. The only thing that has increased,.... is the quality of media coverage and technology. Everybody has access to, and the ability to film events, more people than ever before now have a platform to air their thoughts, fears and observations. it simply brings things near and far closer together, making incidents artificially close. I am in my 40's, and gun violence has been going down most of my life. When there is a problem, i will happily rethink my current stance, but for now i will keep my AR and my Glock.
I have taken the same Oath Twice, and last i checked, it didn't come with an expiration date.
