Interactive timeline of mass shootings in the past 30 years.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-shooting-rampages/

Scary stuff.

What's almost as disturbing as the events that I do recall (Luby's, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Tucson, Sandy Hook) were the deadly shootings of which I only have a faint recollection or no recollection at all. None were insignificant events.

And they do appear to be getting more frequent.

We should not be settling for the status quo when it comes to these shootings, or simply brushing them off because they are statistically rare or assuming that they are things that are just going to happen.

[IveWornAHundredPants]

1. You're just trying to

make the simple ballistic action of a metal chunk hurtling from a tube and tearing an expanding furrow through living tissue look bad. You anti-gun people are so sensitive to everyday mass tragedy! It's important to remember that, except for the numerous and ever-more-frequent time it does occur, this kind of thing hardly ever happens.

[Turbineguy]

2. These are just statistics. Nothing to worry about.

It's all just a part of our wonderful 2nd Amendment Freedoms. Freedom isn't free. The more people get shot, the more freedom we have. And if these numbers mean anything, they mean that we have more freedom than ever. We can't have freedom without people getting shot. That's how it works.

It's like 10 people becoming homeless so a Wall Street banker can have a Ferrari, now, that's not unreasonable is it?

[pediatricmedic]

3. Society is getting uglier and less caring

[ileus]

4. Good find...