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    Re: Another mass shooting in the land of the free...

    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    Three would be hungerford, dunblane and Whitehaven?

    I think the USA definition is more than 4 people shot not including the shooter or something like that.
    I would imagine that there must have been some incidents during the troubles that would fall into that category, wasn't there a pub that was shot up by one side or other (can't remember which). Maybe they don't count those for some reason.

    If it is just that three then they were in 87, 93 and 2010
    Yes that's the three I was thinking of. What was the IRA one in a pub? I can only remember pub bombings. Was it in GB or N Ireland?

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    Re: Another mass shooting in the land of the free...

    Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
    Yes that's the three I was thinking of. What was the IRA one in a pub? I can only remember pub bombings. Was it in GB or N Ireland?
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughinisland_massacre

    In northern Ireland, 6 people killed by uvf terrorists.
    1994.
    That 87-94 period was definitely the worst period for mass shootings in the UK. Since the law changed there has been one in 24 years.
    Total coincidence but we've also never had a mass shooting under a labour government it seems

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    Re: Another mass shooting in the land of the free...

    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughinisland_massacre

    In northern Ireland, 6 people killed by uvf terrorists.
    1994.
    That 87-94 period was definitely the worst period for mass shootings in the UK. Since the law changed there has been one in 24 years.
    Total coincidence but we've also never had a mass shooting under a labour government it seems
    Cheers for that. I guess it could be argued (if anyone was interested enough which they're not) that the IRA or other paramilitary groups can get hold of guns in a way that ordinary people/criminals/nutcases can't, so they're not quite the same.

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