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Shootings at U.S. colleges deadlier and more frequent, report finds
Shootings on college campuses over the last five years have more than doubled since a similar period a decade earlier, according to a report released on Monday by a criminal justice reform organization.
The incidents have also grown more deadly, with three times as many people injured or killed during the most recent five-year period, the New York City-based Citizens Crime Commission said.
"It is now appropriate to call our nation's gun violence problem an epidemic," said the commission's president, Richard Aborn.
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Just 12 states accounted for nearly two-thirds of the shootings, and those states are home to 44 percent of all federally licensed firearm dealers in the country. The commission said most of those states have less restrictive gun laws, as well.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shootings-idUSKCN1231S2
The incidents have also grown more deadly, with three times as many people injured or killed during the most recent five-year period, the New York City-based Citizens Crime Commission said.
"It is now appropriate to call our nation's gun violence problem an epidemic," said the commission's president, Richard Aborn.
- Snip -
Just 12 states accounted for nearly two-thirds of the shootings, and those states are home to 44 percent of all federally licensed firearm dealers in the country. The commission said most of those states have less restrictive gun laws, as well.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shootings-idUSKCN1231S2
The bloody numbers speak for themselves, because the dead can't. More guns = more gun violence = more deaths and injuries. Help stop this epidemic of madness, and vote for an honest Democrat.