Where Mass Shootings Happen.

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Mikul

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I've been thinking (always a dangerous idea, I know) about where all of the recent mass shootings have happened recently: Columbine, the McDonald's in Pittsburg, the DC Zoo. They're all "family locations." They're all places where moms and dads would take their kids.

I can't remember a mass shooting at a romantic Italian restaurant, PTA meeting, a neighborhood bar, a gun shop, somebody's house on New Year's Eve. It's always a kid-centric location.

I realize that I'm probably being short-sighted, and I'd appreciate someone pointing out where I'm obviously wrong, but this does seem to be a trend. I know that there are individual killings at strip joints, and bars where kids aren't, but these are crimes of passion, and commited frequently without guns. It's the mass shootings that I'm thinking of.

If I'm right, then why? Easy targets is the only idea that makes sense to me so far.
 
Because our current warped social values insure that the only guns within 1000 yards of the munchkins will be the ones in the hands of the evildoers themselves...

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
10mm: It's not the size of the Dawg in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!
 
LIRR - Colin Ferguson
Empire State Building - tourist not kids
particularly

Several workplace shootings

Abortion clinic shooting in MA where an Ayoob student chased the BG away.

There has been one at a gun range or two.
One military and one civilian. I forget the details.
 
Post Office??? Wait a minute, you CAN'T have a shooting in a Post Office! That's FEDERAL Property, you aren't Allowed to carry a gun on federal property, it's against the LAW!

[This message has been edited by scott510 (edited April 27, 2000).]
 
I think the vulnerability and cowardice thesis is correct. How about the Jordanian border guard who killed several Isreali schoolgirls on a tour?

Why aren't more of the sick cowardly bustards give the chair straightaway?
 
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