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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:37 pmBBC News
Oregon shooting: Statistics behind 'routine' US gun violence
For the 15th time since he was sworn in as US president, Barack Obama attempted on Thursday to make some sense of an act of mass gun violence and the laws that allowed it to happen.
Nine people had been killed and seven injured in a shooting at an Oregon school before the assailant was shot dead by police.
The president was at turns angry, weary and apparently resigned to the intractable opposition he faces in tightening gun regulation.
"Somehow this has become routine," he said. "The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine."
A list of some of the statistics on US gun violence reveals just how routine mass shootings and other firearm incidents are in a country with nearly as many guns as people.
US gun crime in 2015
(Figures up to 3 December)
353 Mass shootings
62 shootings at schools
12,223 people killed in gun incidents
24,722 people injured in gun incidents
Source: Shooting tracker, Gun Violence Archive
Since Obama was re-elected in 2012
994 mass shootings since he was
Source: Shooting Tracker
Link to Full Article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34424385
Oregon shooting: Statistics behind 'routine' US gun violence
For the 15th time since he was sworn in as US president, Barack Obama attempted on Thursday to make some sense of an act of mass gun violence and the laws that allowed it to happen.
Nine people had been killed and seven injured in a shooting at an Oregon school before the assailant was shot dead by police.
The president was at turns angry, weary and apparently resigned to the intractable opposition he faces in tightening gun regulation.
"Somehow this has become routine," he said. "The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine."
A list of some of the statistics on US gun violence reveals just how routine mass shootings and other firearm incidents are in a country with nearly as many guns as people.
US gun crime in 2015
(Figures up to 3 December)
353 Mass shootings
62 shootings at schools
12,223 people killed in gun incidents
24,722 people injured in gun incidents
Source: Shooting tracker, Gun Violence Archive
Since Obama was re-elected in 2012
994 mass shootings since he was
Source: Shooting Tracker
Link to Full Article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34424385