Facts about guns and mass shootings

Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com

When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be…

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NRA hides under the social media covers

National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting
By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com

The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­…

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