Replying to Avatar Mike Dilger ☑️

The US has mass shootings all the time now I hear, and most of them don't make the news. I have a friend who visited for a month and just during that time he was involved in three of them! What are the odds? Sure sure he was the guy behind the trigger but still. They were happening everywhere he went!
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powrespecter 2y ago

Some more annecdotal evidence, but this is collected over a lifetime:

I've lived in the us for >30 years, East coast, West coast, Chicago. Never once been anywhere near a shooting or known anyone that has.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

Great data point. I knew it couldn't be that bad. But has it changed this much?

I lived in the US for 35 years and never was nearby a criminal shooting (plenty of gunshots aimed at pheasants though). That waa 1970 - 2005.

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finch ☦️ 2y ago

It hasn’t changed much at all, outside of the cities like Chicago (who ironically have very strict gun control).

I have the same experience as powrespecter in my entire life of living in the US across multiple states, some of which are constitutional carry states that require no license to conceal or open carry a firearm.