This morning, a gunman killed six people, including himself, at his former workplace. This appears to be a revenge attack related to his termination in April.
This weekend, three terrorists killed seven people and critically injured more than 20 people in London.
There will be no federal ban on guns in a private workplace; no call for more gun control; no psychological screening of people who are fired from work to see if terminated employees are safe to move about freely in the U.S.
So, let’s look at some data.
The chart above is for 2010, produced by the U.S. Department of Labor.
It shows that in 2010, 405 people were shot and killed at work.
In the same year, 4 people were killed in terror attacks on U.S. soil. In 2011, 0 deaths; 2012, 2012, 7 deaths; 2013, 7 deaths, and 2014, 18 deaths. Source is here: http://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths_FactSheet_Oct2015.pdf
Workplace homicides are a much greater threat to Americans than visitors and immigrants who are already subject to extremely high levels of "vetting."
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