Lately, the anti-gunners have been quoting “Shootingtracker.com” as a “source” in claiming that “there’s a mass shooting ever day in the US”.<\/p>\n
Of course, “mass shootings” – a shooting in which four or more people are killed or injured, no matter what the motivation of the shooter\/s<\/em>, is not the same as a “spree killing” or “rampage killing”; most “mass shootings” involve shootings that are offshoots of other crimes; robberies, gang activity and the like.<\/p>\n Spree killings – like Orlando, San Bernardino, Red Lake, Tuscon, Columbine, Virginia Tech and the like – have “murdering people at random”, or “targeting a specific group” (gays, Jews, Americans, the military) as the sole<\/em> goal of the episode (along, sometimes, with political terrorism).<\/p>\n Anyway – I had a hunch about the site.\u00a0 So I checked it out.<\/p>\n Sure enough – the shooting I wrote about last week, in South Carolina, where a citizen with a carry permit shot and wounded a man who’d shot and injured three others at a bar, ending what could have been a much bigger, much uglier crime?<\/p>\n