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Gun Control & RKBA

virginia mountainman

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4. This is what they are calling a "mass shooting"

Reply to Decoy of Fenris (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 08:21 PM

Dec 2015

http://www.app.com/article/20130506/NJNEWS14/305060048/11-12-year-old-boys-Ocean-Twp-charged-shooting-pellets-four-others

A pair of township boys are accused of shooting four others with a pellet gun, police said.

Nobody was seriously hurt by the 11- and 12-year-old boys who shot the pellet gun at them on April 25

It says a lot about your cause when you that a "mass shooting"

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A mass shooting a day? "Press Distorts with Inflated 'Mass Shooting' Statistics." [View all] Decoy of Fenris Dec 2015 OP

Thank you Kalidurga Dec 2015 #1

I won't disagree with you on the larger scale, but I wouldn't exactly call them "mass shootings." Decoy of Fenris Dec 2015 #2

whichever definition you use, you have to be consistent. krispos42 Dec 2015 #8

I agree Kalidurga Dec 2015 #9

There have been several with at least 4-6 Gman Dec 2015 #3

Several, yes, but far from 350. The point of this post was to address intellectual dishonesty. Decoy of Fenris Dec 2015 #5

This is what they are calling a "mass shooting" virginia mountainman Dec 2015 #4

It is unfortunate that the FBI has... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2015 #6

When this came about over the summer, I told my friend... krispos42 Dec 2015 #7

MSM is drawn to shell game data like some to Limburger cheese: Stinkier the better. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #10

This sounds appropriate in GD, given the history of postings. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #11

Feel free to crosspost it there if you'd like. Decoy of Fenris Dec 2015 #12

HA! Good luck. As a fellow bachelor said "someone's gotta do it." Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #13