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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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The correlation is that the Republicans have amped up the partisan hyperbole and vitriol to unheard of levels during the Obama years, and their base is more riled up and gun-crazy than ever.