Mass shooting definition:
A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition, and defines a "public mass shooting" as one in which four or more people selected indiscriminately, not including the perpetrator, are killed, echoing the FBI definition of the term "mass murder". However, according to the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law in January 2013, a mass killing is defined as a killing with at least three deaths, excluding the perpetrator. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of five or more people (sometimes four) with no cooling-off period. Related terms include school shooting and massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting
Fast food kills:
According to the Historical Atlas of the 20th Century, 203 million people died last century from war and oppression; this figure includes everyone who died as both military and collateral civilian casualties from conflicts, genocide, politicide (i.e., the extermination of people who share a political belief), mass murders, and famines. That?s an average of 2 million deaths per annum.
Now consider that the World Health Organization estimates that at least 2.8 million people currently die annually from conditions strongly linked to overweight and obesity, such as coronary heart disease, ischemia (brain stroke), and diabetes.
https://foodrevolution.org/blog/junk-food-kills-wars-famine-genocide/
Top Ten Reasons Peopl Die IN America 2015:
1. Heart disease: 633,842
2. Cancer: 595,930
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 155,041
4. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 146,571
5. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 140,323
6. Alzheimer?s disease: 110,561
7. Diabetes: 79,535
8. Influenza and pneumonia: 57,062
9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 49,959
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,193
Total: 2,013,017 people
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
The 10 leading causes of death in 2016 remained the same as in 2015, although unintentional injuries became the third leading cause, while chronic lower respiratory diseases became the fourth.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db293.htm
Causes of societal downfall:
1. Linking social/enviromental dynamics:
Modern social critics commonly interpret things like sedentary social behavior as symptomatic of societal decay, and link what appears to be laziness with the depletion of important non-renewable resources. However, many primitive cultures also have high degrees of leisure, so if that is a cause in one place it may not be in another?leisure or apparent laziness is then not a sufficient cause.
2. Population pressure and mineral resource exhasution:
Earth's capacity to sustain human populations and consumption levels ? is bound to decrease sometime in the future as Earth's finite stock of mineral resources is presently being extracted and put to use; and consequently, that the world economy as a whole is heading towards an inevitable future collapse, leading to the demise of human civilisation itself.
3. Theories of energy return on energy invested:
A related economic model is proposed by Thomas Homer-Dixon and by Charles Hall in relation to our declining productivity of energy extraction, or energy return on energy invested (EROEI). This measures the amount of surplus energy a society gets from using energy to obtain energy.
4. Models of societal collapse:
According to Joseph Tainter, too many scholars offer facile explanations of societal collapse by assuming one or more of the following three models in the face of collapse:
a. the dinosaur
b. runaway train
c. house of cards
5. Tainter's critique
a. human societies are problem-solving organizations;
b. sociopolitical systems require energy for their maintenance;
c. increased complexity carries with it increased costs per capita; and
d. investment in sociopolitical complexity as a problem-solving response reaches a point of declining marginal returns.
6. Toynbee's theory of decay:
First the Dominant Minority attempts to hold by force - against all right and reason - a position of inherited privilege which it has ceased to merit; and then the Proletariat repays injustice with resentment, fear with hate, and violence with violence when it executes its acts of secession. Yet the whole movement ends in positive acts of creation - and this on the part of all the actors in the tragedy of disintegration. The Dominant Minority creates a universal state, the Internal Proletariat a universal church, and the External Proletariat a bevy of barbarian war-bands
7. Systems science:
Researchers, as yet, have very little ability to identify internal structures of large distributed systems like human societies, which is an important scientific problem. Genuine structural collapse seems, in many cases, the only plausible explanation supporting the idea that such structures exist. However, until they can be concretely identified, scientific inquiry appears limited to the construction of scientific narratives, using systems thinking for careful storytelling about systemic organization and change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse
What to do during mass shooting:
1. Be an active participant in your own survival.
2. Take time to prepare an emergency action plan.
3. Practice situational awareness.
4. Get out of the killzone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...uring-a-mass-shooting/?utm_term=.3b070997f6d4
Mass Shootings Are Pretty Rare but Here's What To Do If Your Ever in One
https://www.self.com/story/what-to-do-mass-shooting
How to prevent mass shootings: n/a. nothing has been conclusively written on the subject.
How many gun protests 2015: no specific source can be found.
How many times congress met on mass shootings and gun laws 2015: again no specific source. (obama spoke on it 14 times in 2015.)
How many web related articles to mass shootings 2015: i could count that high and do the research but i'm not going to, let's just say a lot.
How many mass shootings happened in 2015: 372
https://www.vox.com/a/mass-shootings-calendar-2015
How many mass shooters commuted suicide 2015: no accurate number as stats are not specific but on average half to 3/4's of people who perpetrate mass shootings die by suicide or intervention of law enforcement whether provoked or not. (186 - 279)
How many people died from mass shootings in 2015: 468
https://www.vox.com/a/mass-shootings-calendar-2015
How many posts on blue light: 1,299 (this thread) and 354 (vegas mandalay bay thread) = (2017 - present) 1,653
How many mass shootings have been stopped or prevented: no specific definitive number but several have been.
How many mass shootings since 2015: 307 (2016) + 345 (2017) + 154 ( 2018 ) = 806
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/mass-shootings-in-america-in-charts-and-graphs-trnd/index.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...r-mass-shootings-in-modern-us-histo/23298797/
https://www.abc15.com/news/data/mass-shootings-in-the-us-when-where-they-have-occurred-in-2018
Total number of lives lost since 2015 to mass shootings: 284 (2016) + more than 14,000 (2017) + more than 7,000 ( 2018 ) = more than 21,284 people
Total number of people killed by guns in all of human history: 0