Where to avoid if you don't want to be shot in America

[niyad]

Where to avoid if you don’t want to be shot in America

As 316 people have died in mass shootings across the US this year, here’s some of the places where the incidents have occurred

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‘There are no safe spaces in America when it comes to gun violence; the NRA is turning the entire country into a no-go zone.’ Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Five people have died after three shootings across America on Monday night. A gunman killed three people at Mercy hospital in Chicago; one person died and four were injured at a shooting near Coors Field in Colorado; and a woman was shot dead at a religious supply store near St Louis. “You can’t go to the hospital, you can’t go to school, you can’t go to church, you can’t go to the grocery store,” one woman caught up in the Mercy hospital shooting told CBS News. “You can’t go anywhere … You never know when you walk into a place if you’re going to come out alive.” She’s right. Monday’s violence means that 316 people have now died in mass shootings in America this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. That’s almost one mass shooting a day. There are no safe spaces in America when it comes to gun violence; the NRA is turning the entire country into a no-go zone. That’s not hyperbole – here’s a list of just some of the places in the country where major shooting incidents have taken place in recent years.


Bar

A 28-year-old former marine killed 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, earlier this month.
Baseball practice

A gunman went on a 10-minute shooting rampage as Republican politicians were at baseball practice in a Virginia park last year. Nobody died, but Steve Scalise, House majority whip, was injured. He later said that getting shot made his gun rights support “as ardent as ever”.
Church

Twenty-five people, as well as an unborn baby, were killed at a shooting at Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last November. The shooter was a 26-year-old white man with a history of domestic violence.
Cinema

Twelve people were killed and more than 50 injured at a Colorado movie theater in 2012. The 24-year-old gunman fired into the crowd at a midnight screening of a Batman movie.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/20/us-mass-shootings-locations-avoid-bar-church-movie-theater-concert

[Sneederbunk]

1. Anywhere between the Canadian and Mexican borders.

[niyad]

2. sadly true

[SWBTATTReg]

3. That's exactly what my other half says, you can be shot anywhere ... anyone claiming otherwise...

is ignoring the facts ... I recall when I had a place in the Ozarks (country too) and heard shots all of the time. In the city, sometimes I hear. But most of the time, I heard gunfire mostly in the country. I remember one time I had to chase off trespassers off of my land who were shooting off their guns on my land, and I had to go over and tell them to stop, since we had a mobile home park (20 mobile homes) right next door and I didn't want errant bullets to go in the wrong place.

[niyad]

4. that must have been truly scary. yes, it can happen anywhere, any time. but I refuse to

live in fear.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. It was. And they were polite to me, and did leave. So, I guess miracles do happen, eh? I ...

still can't get over the fact that they knew all of the mobile homes and people were right next door to them, w/ them still shooting off their guns and all. People sometimes get me wondering about their intelligence or common sense genes...There were a couple of times where we had bullet holes in the mobile home windows, from BB guns. Kids in that case, playing around w/ their xmas present.

[MountCleaners]

6. I remember, after 9/11...

that a small-town friend told me that people in her RW town were afraid to go to the mall, because they thought they might be victims of a terror attack.

I remember feeling so annoyed, as I lived in downtown Chicago, where such an attack was more likely and yet people went about their day, even as fighter jets flew overhead. So narcissistic of them to think that al-Qaeda would attack their tiny little town.

I remember those people now, because they are much more likely to be killed in a mass shooting. Not entirely likely, but certainly more likely, especially with all of the gun crazies in and around those places. And yet, there is little alarm about this coming from the right.

[niyad]

7. sadly, you are so very correct.

[oberliner]

8. Where to avoid if you don't want to be stabbed in London

At least 35 people have been fatally stabbed in London in 2018

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-43784795/edward-adoo-on-fatal-knife-attacks-across-london

[Iggo]

9. It's not the venue. It's the guns. Get the guns. (n/t)