Elkins45
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Frankly I am only concerned about two particular subsets of "mass shootings: random shootings in public places and random shootings in the workplace. A neighborhood drive-by gang murder isn't in a gun free zone, but as I am not in the drug trade those do not concern me.No, it really hasn't. It is just that the media really plays up some types of mass shootings over others. Mass shootings defined as being 4 or more people shot other than the bad guy, do not mostly happen in gun free zones, but such shootings definitely seem more newsworthy. I have also seen how folks like to rework the mass shooting concept however...First, let's do away with any mass shooting that involves gang activity. Let's do away with any involving other crime. Let's do away with those where at least 4 people aren't killed (Mother Jones bizarre redefinition that a mass shooting isn't a mass shooting unless it is first mass murder). Now, it is a fact that most mass shooting in gun-free zones do happen in gun-free zones. That is true. However, you need to look at those that don't in gun-free zones that aren't necessarily on the national news. Then you realize how many are happening that aren't in gun-free zones.
Here are a few recent examples of non-gun-free zone mass shootings you probably never heard about.
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/...etown-neighborhood-no-arrests-made/100735900/
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/06/10/7-shot-2-dead-shooting-fort-worth/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-least-5-people-shot-in-downtown-seattle-police-say/
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...e-party/ar-BBAyXIb?li=BB13Rnn&ocid=spartandhp
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/video?videoId=517938107&videoVersion=1.0
http://www.news4jax.com/news/jso-4-shot-in-moncrief-park
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...iff-s-deputy-fatally-shot-mississippi-n765596 (mass and spree)
http://www.wesh.com/article/6-people-shot-1-killed-in-parramore/3913697
http://www.khou.com/news/crime/six-...-apartment-complex-in-north-houston/425723842
http://www.wftv.com/news/local/poli...ding-2-boys-in-sanford-neighborhood/506352316
As an educator I spent most of my career in a target- rich and legislatively decreed gun free zone. Until I left the building I was a sitting duck. I do not wish this state of affairs on anyone.