Hello Everybody,   
      
   Americans love their guns!   
      
   The US averages 80 deaths per day by guns.   
   That is 10.6 deaths per 100,000 people.   
      
   Today a mass shooting took the lives of 14 people,   
   injuring another 17, in San Bernardino, California.   
      
   The shooting occured at a social services center   
   for the disabled, as people were enjoying a banquet.   
      
   One of the shooters has been identified as a Muslim   
   male, his female accomplice not yet having been named,   
   but presumably Muslim as well.   
      
   Anyway, the San Bernardino shooting is America's   
   352nd mass shooting in the 336 days of 2015.  That   
   is an average of just more than one mass shooting   
   per day.   
      
   To qualify as a mass shooting, at least four people   
   have to be killed or injured.  That's a lot of people   
   when you add it all up.  And the year is not yet over.   
      
   Imagine that.  At least one mass shooting on 208   
   of those 336 days.  And with 365 days in the year,   
   there could be a lot more.  Especially since this   
   is only the 2nd of December ...   
      
   On 81 days of those 336 days there were at least   
   two separate mass shootings.  And we still have   
   almost an entire month to go before the end of the   
   year.   
      
   If you and others want to keep track of all this,   
   please feel free to do so at this url -   
      
   http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/mass_shootings_in_2015   
      
   32 mass shootings in November.  December is off to a   
   great start.  Will we set a new record?  Americans love   
   their guns ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb   
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