America Is Averaging More Than 10 Mass Shootings Per Week So Far This Year

We are 19 weeks into the year 2022, and already the United States has experienced 198 mass shootings. Republicans love to tell us that we can't blame guns, we can only blame the shooters, but there are so many shooters at this point that they likely need their own demographic. The only common bond that these people have are the guns, and that's the root of the problem. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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We are now 19 weeks into the year 2022. And the United States has had 199 mass shootings, 199 spread over 19 weeks, which means we are aver averaging a little over 10 mass shootings per week. So if you can also do the weekly math there's seven days a week, but 10 mass shootings. So we are essentially experiencing roughly 1.45 mass shootings every single day. This year in the United States, a mass shooting every day, every day, and a mass shooting, according to the, uh, uh, research group that put these numbers together, a mass shooting is described as a single event where a single shooter shoots or kills at least four people not including the shooter themselves. So if somebody breaks into a house and shoots four people, yes, that is considered a mass shooting in terms of these statistics.

One a day, little over one a day here in the United States. And as we saw this past weekend, some are racially motivated. Others, not so much, but here's the one thing they all do have in common guns. You can't get around that. You can't have a mass shooting without a gun. The readily available firearms that we have in this country is of course not only unique to the United States, but so are the mass shootings that they cause we have a very serious problem. And unfortunately, we don't have enough, very serious people in Washington, DC, willing to address this problem. People like Marjorie Taylor green out there this week, actually calling for more guns, more guns in response to all of these shootings. More, we want more, we wanna be able to open carry every time we walk into a Piggly wiggly, right? If we sit down for dinner and Outback, everybody at the table better be strapped in case somebody walks in and we have to start shooting them because yeah, cops won't have any idea who the good guy or the bad guy is. They'll just start shooting everybody as cops tend to do. But even cops want stricter gun control laws here in this country. A majority of Americans want stricter gun laws here in this country. A majority of NRA members want stricter gun laws in this country. We're not saying we're taking them away from you. We're just saying let's have better protections in place so that we can do something to stop the nonstop violence here in the United States. Nobody needs an AR 15 in the United States. That's just a fact

Unless you're working in the military or you're a member of the national guard, I guess maybe, but you don't need to have it at home. You don't need it for hunting. But then the people say, well, we use 'em for sports. People used to use lawn darts for sports, but we banned those after kids were getting killed by 'em old by him. And what kind of a sport is that? Anyway, it's a sport where you get a deadly weapon that could very easily be abused. Okay? We don't need those kinds of sports folks. I'm sorry. We don't, you don't need it for hunting. You don't need it for protection. If you think you need an AR 15 to protect your home, then I think you need to reexamine your life and maybe take a look at how many people you've off to think that you need to fire off, you know, a couple hundred bullets in a matter of minutes to defend your home, right? That sounds like a personal problem to me.