/tags/america/ Recent content in America on Musafir's Musings Hugo en-us Thu, 06 Aug 2015 13:57:00 -0700 /posts/2015/08/america-america---a-country-awash-in-guns/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 13:57:00 -0700 /posts/2015/08/america-america---a-country-awash-in-guns/ <div class="blogPost"> <div dir="ltr"> <h3> Sorrowing Lies My Land</h3> <h3> Headlines about gun violence -- deaths and injuries from gunshots -- have become regular features.  Inescapable.</h3> <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/210337/in-us-204-mass-shootings-in-204-days.html" target="_blank">In US, 204 mass shootings in 203 days </a><br/> <br/> <ul> <li><span class="source">NEWSER) </span>– It's the worst kind of synchronicity: A <a href="http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015" target="_blank">website</a>that tracks mass shootings in the US had logged 203 through Wednesday. It hasn't caught up with last night's rampage in a Louisiana theater, but when it does, that will be No. 204—and yesterday was the 204th day of the year, notes the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/24/there-have-been-204-mass-shootings-and-204-days-in-2015-so-far/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>. The Mass Shooting Tracker is a crowd-sourced tool from an anti-gun forum at Reddit called<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gunsarecool" target="_blank">Guns Are Cool</a>, and it defines "mass shooting" as incident in which at least four people were shot. Not all of the incidents resulted in deaths.</li> </ul> <br/> <br/> DC's Summer of Gun Violence <div> <img alt="guncrime" loading="lazy" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/guncrime.jpg"/></div> What they do in the name of Second Amendment !<br/> <br/> NRA: "Guns don't kill people, People Do". <br/> <br/> <div class="text-center"><hr/></div> </div> <p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a href="http://pacetua.blogspot.com/search/label/America" rel="tag">America</a>, <a href="http://pacetua.blogspot.com/search/label/Gun%20Violence" rel="tag">Gun Violence</a>, <a href="http://pacetua.blogspot.com/search/label/Guns" rel="tag">Guns</a>, <a href="http://pacetua.blogspot.com/search/label/NRA" rel="tag">NRA</a></p>