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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan
Interesting Statistics- which may have already been discussed but I am not going to dig- so I apologize in advance if this information is on this board someplace.
Mass Shootings under the Last Five Presidents
Ronald Reagan: 1981-1989 (8 years) 11 mass shootings
Incidents with 8 or more deaths = 5
George H. W. Bush: 1989-1993 (4 years) 12 mass murders
Incidents with 8 or more deaths = 3
Bill Clinton: 1993-2001 (8 years) 23 mass murders
Incidents with 8 or more deaths = 4
George W. Bush: 2001-2009 (8 years) 20 mass murders
Incidents with 8 or more deaths = 5
Barrack H. Obama: 2009-2015 (in 7th year) 162 mass murders
Incidents with 8 or more deaths = 18
Is there some kind of direct correlation to the Obama and mass shootings? If it were the opposite and a conservative president was in power, it would be spun to be the conservative president's fault because of too many guns. Yet Obama has talked constantly of wanting more gun control laws, and yet not just a few more- but 8 times more mass shootings have occurred in Obama's term than any other presidential term since Reagan (sorry the data only goes back until then)- and if you look you can see that they increased four-fold in his first term as president.
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There is a direct correlation between the Obama presidency and the amount of guns being sold in America.
In one of my own posts:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...postcount=2731
I link to a Business Insider article which links to an ATF report, here's the gist: Since Obama was elected, gun sales have increased almost exponentially. Between 1986 and 2007 gun sales in America were basically flat. 3,040,934 guns were sold in 1986. 3,922,613 guns were sold in America in 2007. Between 1986 and 2007 there was some fluctuation, the high being 1994 when 5,173,217 guns were sold. The low was 2001 with 2,932,655.
Then 2008 rolls around and it starts looking like Obama's going to get elected.
Here are the number of guns sold per year between 2008 and 2013.
2008 - 4,498,944
2009 - 5,555,818
2010 - 5,459,240
2011 - 6,541,886
2012 - 8,578,610
2013 - 10,884,792
There isn't data in the report for 2014, but there were recently a number of news reports about this black friday being
amazing for gun sales:
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Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Stephen Fischer confirmed to Fortune that there were 185,345 background checks on November 27, easily beating the previous all time high of 177,170 on December 21, 2012, which was shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut.
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So, yes, there is a correlation between the Obama Presidency and these kinds of incidents. Specifically, the explosion in gun ownership, fuelling more opportunities for gun-violence.
Repeal the 2nd, confiscate guns, implement reasonable controls.
This is the only solution.