Bow-and-arrow killings in Norway seen as an ‘act of terror’

[tabibito]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbre...h=14aa01906493
There have been 147 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as when four or more people have been shot or killed, not including the shooter.
The U.S. was wracked by a record high 610 mass shootings in 2020, the most of any year since the organization began tracking the number in 2014.

Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):

1. United States — 0.058
2. Albania — 0
3. Austria — 0
4. Belgium — 0
5. Czech Republic — 0
6. Finland — 0
7. France — 0
8. Germany — 0
9. Italy — 0
10. Macedonia — 0
11. Netherlands — 0
12. Norway — 0
13. Russia — 0
14. Serbia — 0
15. Slovakia — 0
16. Switzerland — 0
17. United Kingdom —

This is a chart of the median, using the same data as the chart of the average (post #83.) The article here points out how the methodology for producing the table in post #83 is flawed.

[Gondwanaland]

I am not following you down your flowery path in your attempt to derail this thread. If you want to start your own thread you know what to do.

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[Hypatia_Alexandria]

First. You are once again trying to kick someone out of a thread that you didn't start. You have a real annoying habit of trying to do that.

Second. did not make a "suggestion."

Again, if a person demonstrates no desire to rehabilitate, that's his/her own choice.

It takes a lot of distorting and misunderstanding to twist that into a "suggestion."

That was why I asked you why you mischaracterized it as such.

I am not trying to kick you out this thread I am simply not following you down your flowery path.

[Cow Poke]

I am not trying to kick you out this thread I am simply not following you down your flowery path.

Yet, here you are, doing exactly what you say you're not doing.

[Roy]

Your source said that "In other countries, bombings, mass stabbings, and car attacks frequently kill more people than even the deadliest mass shootings in the United States." That would suggest that his examples would be of attacks that killed more people than the deadliest shootings in the US. But they aren't. The data do not support the conclusion.

Worst shooting in U.S.: 59 dead.

Worst Shooting in Europe: 67 dead Norway 2011 (another 8 via a car bomb)

Worst vehicle attack in Europe: 87 dead in France 2016

I can provide multiple examples of where bombings killed far more than either.

So can I. But a few examples of bombings won't justify the "frequently" I was taking exception to. Nor the "mass stabbings".

[Roy]

Yeah, the guns jump out of houses and magically fly to schools and other places and kill people, right?

It's not a gun problem, Roy - it's a people problem.

Since the comparison was guns vs knives/bombs/vehicles, that comment isn't relevant since knives, bombs and cars don't magically jump out of houses either. It's just a distraction.

[rogue06]

Yet, here you are, doing exactly what you say you're not doing.

She spends more time proclaiming that she won't answer why she mischaracterized your statement as a "suggestion" than she ever would have needed to simply answer it.

[rogue06]

Since the comparison was guns vs knives/bombs/vehicles, that comment isn't relevant since knives, bombs and cars don't magically jump out of houses either. It's just a distraction.

So you acknowledge it isn't a "gun problem" but a "people problem"?

[Cow Poke]

She spends more time proclaiming that she won't answer why she mischaracterized your statement as a "suggestion" than she ever would have needed to simply answer it.

She loves going down the flowery path with you so she can proclaim she's not going down the flowery path, while enjoying the flowers on the way.

[rogue06]

She loves going down the flowery path with you so she can proclaim she's not going down the flowery path, while enjoying the flowers on the way.

Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that is where I'll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me
Oh, tiptoe from the garden
By the garden of the willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me

[Cow Poke]

Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that is where I'll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me
Oh, tiptoe from the garden
By the garden of the willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me

I remember that appearance on Johnny Carson, and just sat there like.... WUT??!?!?!?!?

[rogue06]

I remember that appearance on Johnny Carson, and just sat there like.... WUT??!?!?!?!?

Too young to have stayed up for Carson but saw him several times on Laugh-In

[Roy]

So you acknowledge it isn't a "gun problem" but a "people problem"?

You know I didn't.

[Cow Poke]

You know I didn't.

There was hope.

[rogue06]

You know I didn't.

I had hope given that you acknowledged that things like guns, knives and bombs "don't magically jump out of houses." But I guess that was just a bit too far of a step for you. Too bad. You were so close to.