Why is it ALWAYS Colorado?

[Rocknrule]

First Columbine, then Aurora, and now Planned Parenthood, with God knows how many attempted mass shootings in between. Why is this seemingly the only state where tragedy strikes repeatedly like this? At least Virginia and Connecticut were one and done (so far). I am just so sick and tired of this. How many times are we going to be the epicenter of this nation's gun control debate? How many times are we going to ask in anguish, "Why?" How many times is this great state's heart going to be broken again and again and again by some heavily armed nutcase? Haven't we been through enough?

[valerief]

1. Here are the Colorado shootings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Colorado

High altitude or high and might attitude?

[Rocknrule]

2. I noticed that no other state has a Wikipedia list like that

[valerief]

3. Wow, I hadn't looked. What is it about Colorado then?

Whiteness? Christianity? A certain level of economic comfort with no compassion for others not as well-heeled?

[mwrguy]

6. whiteness is certainly a big part of it

[enlightenment]

4. It's not.

If you take a longer range view, you'll see that Colorado isn't even a front-runner. That, I believe, would be Texas.

Useful collection of statistics compiled by Stanford University, here: http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Compare/storytelling_compare/index.html?appid=54da28a37c934565892d3058dc1161cc

[valerief]

5. Odd there's no List of Shootings in Texas page in Wikipedia.

Here's a USA Today mass murder slideshow. It shows the difference between FBI-listed mass shootings and USA Today-verified mass shootings.

[enlightenment]

9. I suspect that the Texas Wikipedia page

is carefully edited.

[SheilaT]

7. Observation bias.

I can think of LOTS of mass shootings in lots of other states: Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, California, Texas are just the first that come to immediate mind.

And so long as guns are readily available to one and all, so long as there is no effort whatsoever to remove guns, then these shootings will happen. It's just a part of the fabric of American life, nothing special. Something like 30 people die every single day from guns in this country, and then every so often some trigger-happy nut decides to shoot a whole bunch of people at once. Heck, this guy only nailed three people so he's obviously a loser in the mass-murder contest.

I'm not even going to put up the sarcasm thingy, because I'm not feeling remotely sarcastic here.

[Rocknrule]

8. Which ones were in Arkansas and Georgia?

n/t

[SheilaT]

11. School shootings several years ago.

Again, I just listed states that came to mind, and made no effort to do an exhaustive search.

Just because Colorado has a wiki page devoted to its mass shootings, doesn't mean it's the only state to have them, or even the state with the most.

[Rocknrule]

12. I think it's curious that no other state has a wiki page like that

Even California or Texas, which have more mass shootings than we do, although probably not as many high-profile ones as us

[SheilaT]

13. The wiki page probably reflects

that someone cared enough to create the page. No deeper meaning than that.

[Liberty Belle]

10. 9 of the 42 worst mass shootings in the U.S. were in California:

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

Two are in San Diego county and ironically two other deadly school shootings here that once ranked among the worst in the nation have been eclipsed by even worse tragedies and are no longer on this list.