More youths die in binge drinking than shooitings according to CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/us/us-mass-killings/

Each mass killing provokes a flurry of public shock and a frenzy of media attention -- and often soul-searching about whether they represent a broader descent into gun-fueled violence.

But are such attacks on the rise in the United States?

Not according to professor James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass murder for the past three decades.

Police search for gun used in Oakland college shooting

Despite the huge media coverage devoted to them, crime statistics show that there is no upward trend in mass killings -- defined as having four victims or more, not counting terrorism -- since the 1970s, he said.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/us/us-mass-killings/

That is by choice, not at the hands of a deranged individual.

Many school age ( middle, high school and college) children are alcoholics or addicts and the parents don't have a clue. Even though it is illegal .....they still get the booze and drugs.

Choices to fire a gun are CHOICES

PACEDOG#1 wrote:Choices to fire a gun are CHOICES

I understand but getting shot by a deranged scumbag isn't.