# Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 24, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036 "2022-05-24T21:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/18 "2022-05-24T22:25:06Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Who is that big contingent of people? I’m definitely concerned about both. Well, this forum for starters. I went through GD, P&E, IMHO, MPSIMS and the PIT just now and copied a link to every thread dealing in some way with mass shootings, and here is how many we have had: > [@Mass Killings in the United States (2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-killings-in-the-united-states-2022/957844): > > Mass killings in the United States, 2022 Four or more dead (Suicides Indicated by an asterisk) By a single killer (The killer is charged, or would have been charged had he lived.) By any criminal means ==2022== 3 January 2022 near Columbia MO, 4\* killed (reckless driving) ([https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article257034362.html](https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article257034362.html)) 5 January 2022 Philadelphia PA, 12 killed (arson) ([Christmas tree ignited by young child probed as source of Fairmount house fire; vigil held to s…](https://www.inquirer.com/news/live/philadelphia-fire-fairmount-victims-cause-pha-updates-20220106.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=android&utm_campaign=app_android_article_share&utm_content=Q6PGDDWTFFCABLSCSVKADONNQQ) > [@21 Dead at Elementary School W of San Antonio, TX {May 24, 2022}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-dead-at-elementary-school-w-of-san-antonio-tx-may-24-2022/965028/29): > > When are they going to well- regulate the fucking militia? > [@Mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket: 2022-05-14](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-buffalo-supermarket-2022-05-14/964438): > > Local sheriff says it was racially motivated. White shooter. > [@Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/238): > > Armed guards worked really well at parkland. 14 second to fourth graders are dead. The big idea they have is to have shootouts in elementary schools. Nothing like deadly ignorance. > [@Another White Male Perpetrates a Another Mass Shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-white-male-perpetrates-a-another-mass-shooting/938463): > > This time in a supermarket in [Boulder, Colorado](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/us/boulder-colorado-shooting/index.html) This is after the Asian Spa shootings last week When I started this topic Discourse “helpfully” listed another of similar topics and for once they actually were similar regarding white men shooting numbers of other people. As I always state, I do not think this behavior is representative of ALL white males, but they do seem more prone to it than other groups. I realize I put this in the Pit, because mass shootings are very much Pit-worthy, but … [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-x-amount-of-mass-shootings-that-would-change-gun-supporters-minds-or-is-that-the-wrong-way-to-think/964380/322](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-x-amount-of-mass-shootings-that-would-change-gun-supporters-minds-or-is-that-the-wrong-way-to-think/964380/322) I see zero threads from any of those 5 forums with activity in the past month, that appears (at least based on thread title) to be concerned with America’s general homicide problem (which in 2020, meant 13,500 gun homicides, of which around 450 were in mass shootings.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036)._