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> And then there are the mass killers, but since vehicles won't be banned because they have "overwhelmingly more legitimate use", they would remain available fo
by jakelazaroff 7y ago
> And then there are the mass killers, but since vehicles won't be banned because they have "overwhelmingly more legitimate use", they would remain available for mass killings.
Yet curiously, almost all mass murders are committed with guns, not vehicles.
- leereeves 7y agoThe ones you hear about, because there's a political agenda behind publicizing them. Have you heard about any of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack
- jakelazaroff 7y agoYou say political agenda, but your own source lists the most recent vehicle attack as occurring last year, and no casualties occurred. Multiple mass shootings have claimed tens of lives in the past few days alone.
- leereeves 7y agoAre we reading the same page? The most recent attack listed in my source was in March of this year and killed six. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaoyang_car_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaoyang_car_attack And that's just the last time someone added one to the page. I doubt the list is comprehensive or that was the last attack.
- toyg 7y agoHe clearly meant the last attack on American soil.
- leereeves 7y agoI think we all agree American murderers prefer to use guns rather than vehicles or acid. That's our culture. But it's not worse than other cultures where murderers prefer to use acid or knives or vehicles or bombs.
- jakelazaroff 7y agoIt's a pragmatic preference, not a cultural one: guns are much better murder weapons than cars.
- throw0101a 7y agoYou don't hear a lot about many of them because there are only so many hours in the day: * https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting Compare the list of Canada which fits on one page (going back to 1689): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada to the US, which has page-per-year breakdowns: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_... Canada has the sixth-highest firearm ownership rate, yet has a death rate lower than many EU countries: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r... So firearms aren't alien to Canadians, and yet the number of blood baths occurring is much, much lower. Incidents do occur: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shooting but much less frequently.