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Fascinating & scary. The little P means police shooting; the A means accident; the D means self-defense.
Red means dead, yellow means injured only.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/12/gun_deaths_map_how_many_people_have_died_or_been_injured_in_shootings_around.html
REP
(21,691 posts)Santa Cruz is a pestering pit and San Jose is a fairly large city. 4 deaths, including a suicide. There have been more deaths on the highway leading up to Santa Cruz.
Retrograde
(10,137 posts)2 last year, in a town a tenth the size of San Jose - the last on 12/25 a couple of blocks from me (mentally ill man waving knife at police).
belcffub
(595 posts)but I didn't expect to find any... being a FireFighter who mostly does EMS I would have expected to hear about any if there had been one...
840high
(17,196 posts)hunter
(38,321 posts)There have been 7 shootings within a 1-mile radius of this point in the past year, 5 fatal and 2 non-fatal.
I love it when people tell me I don't know anything about guns.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)There have been 4 shootings within a 2-mile radius of this point in the past year, 1 fatal and 3 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 1.25 miles away.
but I'm assured it is an epidemic...
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)That (closest) would be the kid that killed the other kid the week before. August was a blast round these parts.
Thanks for that link.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)Lucky I guess.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Apparently they don't do rural locations.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)10-15 miles away from my house. Yeah, I know Tallahassee has had a lot of shootings this yea but I wanted to see if there were any in my part of the county.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Sissyk
(12,665 posts)Southern, Middle Tennessee.
NutmegYankee
(16,200 posts)As a note, Connecticut doesn't have county government, so every town has full home rule.