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Originally Posted by Bill32
I haven't researched these 56 " mass shootings" but I would wager most of them were in a " gun free zone " or a location where it's very difficult to get a carry permit, no??.
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And to answer your question... No they were not increased in "gun free zones" although that myth is commonly spread by the gun lobby. A few did include schools, eg Columbine, but in all cases of school shootings there is evidence the school was targeted not because it was gun free ( and it is important to recall there was an armed officer in the building and another nearby both of whom were unsuccessful in hitting the killers) but rather because the killer had a grudge against the school much like a fired employee attacks his former place of work. Even the murder at the Sikh temple doesn't qualify as that facility was not gun free under state law.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...mass-shootings
As to your second question whether these slaughters occur in areas where it is difficult to get a carry permit.. I don't know your definition of difficult but the killings seem to be distributed fairly similarly to the population of the country. The entire data is available at
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ones-full-data
Keep in mind as you look at the data that the laws on carry may have differed years ago.