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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Look up the wikipedia page on mass shootings. You'd be surprised at how many have occured in dozens of other "modern" countries around the world in the past 100+ years.
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Yes, let's do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting
Second sentence kind of says it all:
While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, 31% of public mass shootings occur in the U.S.
Further on down we read....
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In 2015, The Washington Post reported 204 mass shootings occurring in the U.S. in that year alone, according to ShootingTracker.com. In August 2015, the Washington Post reported that the United States was averaging one mass shooting per day.
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There are so many mass shootings in the United States that they don't even report most of them. There has been 204 mass shootings in the United States in 2015; How many of them can you name?