Facts for the mighty mouth to swallow
Obama, on the Charleston shootings: "[W]e as a country have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
No doubt many of Obama's progressive disciples will abjectly swallow his mendacious pronouncement. Here is some factual "ammunition" for supporters of the Second Amendment.
Mass public shootings in other "advanced countries":
Behring Anders Breivik killed 75, 2011, Norway
Mohammed Merah killed 7, 2012, France
Genildo Ferreira de França killed 14, 1997, Brazil
Michael Robert Ryan killed 16, 1987, UK
Eric Borel killed 15, 1995, France
Friedrich Leibacher killed 14, 2001,Switzerland
Christian Dornier killed 14, 1989, France
Ljubiša Bogdanović killed 13, 2013, Serbia
Derrick Bird killed 12, 2010, UK
Robert Steinhäuser killed 16, 2002, Germany
Tim Kretschmer killled 15, 2009, Germany
Wellington Menezes de Oliveira killed 12, 2011, Brazil
Bai Ningyang killed 12, 2006, China
Juhani Matti Saari killed 10, 2008, Finland
Huanming Wu killed 9, 2010, China
Ahmed Ibragimov killed 41, 1999, Russia
Ami Popper killed 7, 1990, Israel
Antoní Blažka killed 6, 2013, Czech Republic
(Wayne Laugesen, Colorado Spring Gazette, cited by Steven Hayward)
Other major contributions by "advanced countries"
- The Holocaust
- Forced starvation of the Kulaks
- Extermination of landlords in China
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Rape of Nanking by Japan
- Bataan Death March
- SS & Gestapo
- Berlin Wall killings
- KGB torture and executions