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06-18-2015 02:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by Dugan
(Post 20502008)
that sounds like a mass killing. Wouldn't a mass shooting be 3+ shot? I'm not a lawyer and have no idea. When does it become 'guns are the problem' and now time for the solution?
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i'm going by the general understanding of the terms by criminologists. I'm also on the side of criminologists such as Jim Fox, PHD
James Alan Fox
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Joint appointment in the School of Criminology and the School and Public Policy Urban Affairs.
Author of eighteen books, including Violence and Security on Campus (2010),
The Will to Kill (2007) and Extreme Killing (2005)
Member of USA TODAY Board of Contributors
Author of the Crime and Punishment blog for the Boston Globe (2010-2014)
Former columnist for the Boston Herald, writing three times monthly on crime and justice issues
Regularly quoted in major newspapers and interviewed on national television
Served as news analyst for NBC and consultant for FOX News
Frequently lectures on college campuses and to community and corporate groups
Sixteen appearances before the United States.Congress
Served as a Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice
Profiled in The New York Times (2006), USA Today (1995) , Scientific American (1996), and elsewhere
Consultant on major investigations, including the Gainesville, FL serial killings of college students and the Capitol Hill (Seattle) mass murder at a rave after-party
Winner of the 2007 Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship
Winner in 2008 of the Klein Memorial Lectureship from Northeastern University
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according to his research, mass shootings are not on the rise,
Mass Shootings Aren't On the Rise
he also illustrates that the problem is not as simple as "guns are the problem".
DOn't get me wrong, we have several problems where guns are involved, but mass shootings isn't at the top of the list. moreover, better legislation re: mental health and gun control laws would seem to be a step in the right direction when it comes to mass shootings.
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