GunsAreCool, the effing obvious no. n - 1.

Christopher Ingraham has caused a stir with a post on his “wonk blog” citing the work of other wonks, the moderators of the satirically-named subreddit GunsAreCool, who have shown that we are “averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015.” The numbers at the time of Ingraham’s writing: “By August 26, the 238th day of the year, the number of mass shootings has risen to 247 for the year.” (These are summarized in the table from the article below.) GunsAreCool’s definition of “mass shooting” - “any single incident in which at least four people are shot.”

Shot with guns! Let us repeat the effing obvious until the effing oblivious get it: people are shot – and maimed or killed – with guns!

     Between August 1 and November 30 of 2014, with a grant from the Grant Grant Foundation, Go Around Back sent out for free distribution to book stores, convenience stores, tattoo parlors, independently-owned garages, and (yes) gun shops in every city, county, township, or town in which there have been mass shootings – from Albuquerque to Fort Wayne to Barre, VT; from Holly Hill, SC to St. Louis to Moscow, ID, from Fresno to Omaha to Ybor City, FL – 8000 copies of the first English (Grove Press) edition of Waiting for Godot. And to date no one has been maimed or killed by the book. Of course, it's a paperback. And the ratio of hand guns to Godot* is in the order of 100 to 1.

Here is the aforementioned table and three links:

Ingraham’s article is here, at washingtonpost.com.

The subreddit GunsAreCool is here - keep up on the mayhem - and its up-to-date list of shootings with links to news coverage here.

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 *all copies, all editions.