"There are [1] guns in this society
[1] 200 million
The gunman [was] armed with [1]
[1] a 9-mm pistol and a .22-caliber handgun
Columbine High bloodbath near [1]. On [date] two teenagers killed [3] fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.
[1] Littleton, Colo, [2] 4/20/99 (Real NiCe, BoB) [3] 12 [ToN]
Until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself...
The deadliest previous campus shooting in U.S. history took place in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire. He killed 16 people before he was gunned down by police...
The massacre Monday took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.
Myth No. 8. “He’d never touched a gun.”
Most attackers had access to weapons, and had used them prior to the attack. Most of the attackers acquired their guns from home...
Myth No. 10. “School violence is rampant.”
It may seem so, with media attention focused on a spate of school shootings. In fact, school shootings are extremely rare. Even including the more common violence that is gang-related or dispute-related, only 12 to 20 homicides a year occur in the 100,000 schools in the U.S. In general, school assaults and other violence have dropped by nearly half in the past decade.
-msnbc 4/16/07
But guns were used in 71 percent of murders committed in 2003, the most recent year with comprehensive data. -reu 9/25/05
More than a dozen leading health groups, including the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the AmericanCollege of Emergency Physicians jointly called for the ban's extension on Tuesday, describing gun violence as a public health crisis.
- reuters 9/8/04
of 238,292 people who bg handguns in ca in 91
- risk of sui 57x as hi as gen rate in 1st week (644 v 11.3 per 100k)
- sui was ldg cause of death amng handgun buyers, outranking heart dz
- Dr. Garen J. Wintemute = ER physician at UC Davis
- 6 y later, risk of sui still 2x that of the general pop
- 90% of those who attempt sui by gun succeed v. 10% w/ pills or poison
source: nejm 11/15/99