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Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647

In the first three weeks of 2023: 39

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.

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Robert Reich on Twitter

“Mass shootings in the US: 2014: 273 2015: 336 2016: 383 2017: 348 2018: 336 2019: 417 2020: 610 2021: 690 2022: 647 In the first three weeks of 2023: 39 We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.”

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@rbreich Course not, but it makes the NRA and gun makes happy to sell ever more guns.
@rbreich well regulated militia, strikes again

@rbreich
Sadly, you DO have to live like this when there are 120+ guns PER PERSON in the US of A.

How does that make any sense at all?

Getting rid of the existing guns is problematic. Stopping the expansion just takes guts.

@rbreich
Then we need a government who does what it's supposed to do and doesn't dither around and waste their time fighting each other! Personally I'm getting rather tired of all the hate and violence that exists here!
@rbreich @Lorian68 We need a*republican party* that is willing to do something. We don’t have that now.
@MWilson @rbreich
That's very true, but we also need a democratic party who's willing to fight the GOP and not give in to them. Most of the GOP do nothing, and a handful of them fight and do nothing! It's our government that has caused most of the problems in this country, and that includes both sides
@rbreich
Here is your post visualized!
@rbreich does US grow bananas in its Republic?

@rbreich "The often quoted National Rifle Association slogan in response to the mass shootings — "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" — proves itself tragically inaccurate.

We all think of ourselves as "good," don't we? ,,, "https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-las-vegas-shooting-nra-guns-20171003-story.html

After Las Vegas, what happens next?

Our readers grapple with the loss of life in Las Vegas after a shooter opened fire on concert-goers.

Chicago Tribune
@rbreich Howard Unruh was the first in 1949. The next was in 1966? And now a couple every day? I wonder if there's a correlation with the time spent staring at glowing screens? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
The Story of the First Mass Shooting in U.S. History

Howard Unruh’s “Walk of Death” foretold an era in which such tragedies would become all too common

Smithsonian Magazine
@rbreich I’d almost believe that the republicans are pushing their base to get rid of everyone who isn’t a republican cult member