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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Mass Killings: 2019

The other day I came across an article at the Daily Mail, "Mass killings hit new high: 210 people were killed in 41 attacks including 33 mass shootings in the US during 2019." In this case, a "mass killing" is being defined as 4 or more people, other than the perpetrator, being killed in a single incident. At least the authors were honest enough to report that:
     The majority of the killings involved people who knew each other - family disputes, drug or gang violence or people with beefs that directed their anger at co-workers or relatives.

    In many cases, what set off the perpetrator remains a mystery.
Of course, this pales in regard to what we see in other countries. I just did a quick search using Google for bombings in 2019 and came up with this:
Remember, this is just bombings and is no where inclusive of all such attacks. Not surprisingly, all but one of the bombings was committed by Muslims, and primarily against other Muslims.

2 comments:

  1. A quick study of the demographics of the actual killers in the "mass shootings" would never make the news.

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    1. Yup. It might wake people up to the fact that the problem is not guns.

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