Women, children and elderly are increasingly injured in stray bullet shootings, of which celebratory shootings are one, because there is little anticipation or warning.
Kevin Durant had 16 points for the cold-shooting Thunder, which shot a season-low 32.9 percent from the field.
Aggravated assaults and aggravated batteries, which include shootings, went from 288 to 324.
From 1998 to 2009, the most recent year available, aggravated assaults and batteries, which include shootings, have declined 24 percent, to 392 from 515.
The common thread to these — and many more — demolitions and constructions is the legacy of gun violence, and the fates of the spaces in which mass shootings have taken place.
Which include, shootings and head strikes, using lethal weapons like tasers, chemical spares and fists.
The fact that the gunman is clearly mentally unbalanced does not absolve us of the responsibility to consider the atmosphere in which the shootings occurred.
In an era in which mass shootings have become commonplace, the couple's firepower still raises eyebrows -- especially in California, which experts say has the nation's strictest gun laws.
However, according to a study on homegrown extremism by the New America Foundation's International Security Program, there have been almost twice as many non-jihadist attacks than jihadist attacks, many of which were shootings, in the United States since September 11 , 2001
