Six separate mass shootings bring tally to 324 this year, underscoring continuing US crisis of gun violence

[Philthy_Phil]

Sunday’s mass murder at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, which left at least four worshippers dead and eight wounded, was just one of six mass shootings that erupted across the US over a weekend of gun horror.

The Gun Violence Archive, an online non-profit database which records mass shootings in America, added six fresh incidents over Saturday and Sunday. The concentrated bloodletting, spread out across four states, took the lives of nine people, including the suspect in Sunday’s shooting at Grand Blanc’s Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church, as well as injuring at least 33.


The weekend’s spate brings the archive’s tally of mass shootings – defined as events with at least four victims injured or killed, not counting the shooter – to 324 this year alone, as of Monday morning. That is a rate of more than one a day.

How many were in Portland?

 

[ChinoMoreno]

My mans thinks there's are war here?

Dispatch from PDX. – YDP – your daily picture https://share.google/DudCwzAGy6YouCNHX

 

[TastySuckToy]

"An estimated 17,140 people lost their lives in motor vehicle crashes from January through June 2025"

"The number of deaths for June 2025 is estimated to be 3,420."

Anti gun fanatics don't give a shit about human lives. All they care about is screaming about guns which kill way less people than vehicles do.

Despite guns being "designed to kill", vehicles designed to be as safe as possible, and guns outnumbering vehicles around 2 to 1.

Never mind how many crimes are stopped or self defense cases there are using guns, with estimates being between hundreds of thousands to millions of cases per year.

 

[73Seahawks]

How many were in Portland?

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Sigh.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I’ll say It again…

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

I’ll say It again…

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Everyone on this planet is more likely to die because Americans use so much air conditioning.

And Americans are way more likely to be killed by a gun whether Europeans have air conditioning or not.

 

[TastySuckToy]

And Americans are way more likely to be killed by a gun whether Europeans have air conditioning or not.

And pool owners are more likely to drown in their pools than people who don't have pools.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

And pool owners are more likely to drown in their pools than people who don't have pools.

Have you ever wondered why people who live in countries without gun violence literally never ask "Should we have more guns?"

Why do you think that is?

It's the same reason they're not asking 'why don't we put packs of rabid dogs in children's playgrounds?'

The reason why the billions of people across India and Europe and Russia and Indonesia and Australia - just to name a few random places - aren't constantly debating guns is simple: it's because there is in fact no debate.

 

[TastySuckToy]

Have you ever wondered why people who live in countries without gun violence literally never ask "Should we have more guns?"

Why do you think that is?

It's the same reason they're not asking 'why don't we put packs of rabid dogs in children's playgrounds?'

The reason why the billions of people across India and Europe and Russia and Indonesia and Australia - just to name a few random places - aren't constantly debating guns is simple: it's because there is in fact no debate.

No debate just means no freedom. Slaves didn't debate their armed slave owners either.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Have you ever wondered why people who live in countries without gun violence literally never ask "Should we have more guns?"

Why do you think that is?

It's the same reason they're not asking 'why don't we put packs of rabid dogs in children's playgrounds?'

The reason why the billions of people across India and Europe and Russia and Indonesia and Australia - just to name a few random places - aren't constantly debating guns is simple: it's because there is in fact no debate.

Americans are born wimps. They fear their own shadows, always have, so they immerse themselves in a gun culture to help them feel tough. Sadly it backfired.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

I’ll say It again…

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You're still wrong and you're still stupid, I can't say it enough.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

You're still wrong and you're still stupid, I can't say it enough.

Telling us you didn’t read the link, without telling us..

It’s OK…we know and understand. Try not to torch a Tesla today though.

 

[ll74]

I’ll say It again…

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Your article makes an odd change of data to confuse the reader.

In per capita terms, the U.S. recorded 13.7 firearm deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023. Meanwhile, the death rate from heat in Europe during the summer of 2022 exceeded 90 per million—which, extrapolated annually, is equally significant.

Why are firearm deaths represented by 100k people and yet heat deaths is by 1mil?

Oh wait......it's because the author knows people have issues with math.

 

[MajorRewrite]

"An estimated 17,140 people lost their lives in motor vehicle crashes from January through June 2025"

"The number of deaths for June 2025 is estimated to be 3,420."

Anti gun fanatics don't give a shit about human lives. All they care about is screaming about guns which kill way less people than vehicles do.

Despite guns being "designed to kill", vehicles designed to be as safe as possible, and guns outnumbering vehicles around 2 to 1.

Never mind how many crimes are stopped or self defense cases there are using guns, with estimates being between hundreds of thousands to millions of cases per year.

Crazy person thinks vehicles have something to do with guns.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Telling us you didn’t read the link, without telling us

You just fucked yourself, idiot.

Your article makes an odd change of data to confuse the reader.

 

[ll74]

I’ll say It again…

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You have a 0.014% chance of being killed by a gun.
You have a 0.009% chance of being killed in Europe from heat.

I.e. the math on this meme is wrong.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Americans are born wimps. They fear their own shadows, always have, so they immerse themselves in a gun culture to help them feel tough. Sadly it backfired.

Only the ammosexuals were born wimps. The rest of us go about our lives without fear.

I’m over 60 and I’ve never been robbed, mugged or assaulted. Hell, I haven’t even been in a fist fight since I was a teenager. And of course I don’t have a gun.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Telling us you didn’t read the link, without telling us..

It’s OK…we know and understand. Try not to torch a Tesla today though.

A simple Google of each stat is more reliable than one of your pro pedo links.
I'm right, you're wrong, I'm used to it.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

We pay respect to those that peddle racism and misogyny and give thoughts and prayers to school shootings.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

No debate just means no freedom. Slaves didn't debate their armed slave owners either.

In May 1996, the National Firearms Agreement in Australia was literally debated by both the federal and state governments.

It was passed.

In the two decades after it was passed Australia was completely free of fatal mass shootings.

I appreciate you will never be able to escape your tribal thinking about guns - that's fine. But at least you can now know that there is a big wide world beyond America's borders where things like debate and freedom have functional meanings beyond your internet memes.

 

[TastySuckToy]

In May 1996, the National Firearms Agreement in Australia was literally debated by both the federal and state governments.

It was passed.

In the two decades after it was passed Australia was completely free of fatal mass shootings.

That's the effect of having a continent sized country with one of the world's most sparsely populated regions of the world.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

That's the effect of having a continent sized country with one of the world's most sparsely populated regions of the world.

That was exactly their situation before the National Firearms Agreement too, wasn't it. When someone shot to death 35 people in Port Arthur.

But listen, I'm not trying to change your mind. You're going to go to your grave thinking guns aren't a problem. That's fine by me. Perhaps you'll know though that the rest of the world thinks completely differently to you and there are good reasons for that.

 

[TastySuckToy]

But listen, I'm not trying to change your mind. You're going to go to your grave thinking guns aren't a problem.

Correct. Guns are not a problem.

If someone stabs someone with a knife, knives aren't the problem.
If someone beats someone with a bat, bats aren't the problem.
If someone burns down a building or city block, the matches and gasoline they used aren't the problem.
If someone punches someone in the face, hands and fists aren't the problem.
If someone drives into a crowd of people with a truck, trucks aren't the problem.
If someone drowns in a swimming pool, swimming pools aren't the problem.
If someone bashes someone else in the head with a rock, rocks aren't the problem.

Do you understand yet? The above logic doesn't magically change when talking about guns.

 

[Hel_Books]

Correct. Guns are not a problem.

If someone stabs someone with a knife, knives aren't the problem.
If someone beats someone with a bat, bats aren't the problem.
If someone burns down a building or city block, the matches and gasoline they used aren't the problem.
If someone punches someone in the face, hands and fists aren't the problem.
If someone drives into a crowd of people with a truck, trucks aren't the problem.
If someone drowns in a swimming pool, swimming pools aren't the problem.
If someone bashes someone else in the head with a rock, rocks aren't the problem.

Do you understand yet? The above logic doesn't magically change when talking about guns.

Your mention of swimming pools is interesting. There are things you can do for safety, such as having a fence around a swimming pool to make sure a toddler doesn't wander into it and drown, that reduce the number of drownings.

In the USA you do these things with swimming pools (and you also regulate trucks for safety, you require gasoline to be stored properly etc.). But you don't do these things with firearms.

Nations with sensible regulations don't have all these mass shootings.

It's like airplanes and prescription drugs and . . . just about everything dangerous. If you let them run amok, you're gonna get death and destruction.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

Correct. Guns are not a problem.

If someone stabs someone with a knife, knives aren't the problem.
If someone beats someone with a bat, bats aren't the problem.
If someone burns down a building or city block, the matches and gasoline they used aren't the problem.
If someone punches someone in the face, hands and fists aren't the problem.
If someone drives into a crowd of people with a truck, trucks aren't the problem.
If someone drowns in a swimming pool, swimming pools aren't the problem.
If someone bashes someone else in the head with a rock, rocks aren't the problem.

Do you understand yet? The above logic doesn't magically change when talking about guns.

So why do you think every person in every country wants all those things but they never, ever - literally never - ask for more guns?

You seem very keen to use logic to back up your thinking. What logic do you use to answer that question?

If you don’t want to answer it then that’s fine. I wouldn’t want you being kicked out of your tribe.