• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    For me, I would define a mass shooting as four or more people shot, not counting the perpetrator, where the shooting itself was the objective.

    Not a robbery gone bad, not a drug crime, not a gang fight, or a bar fight.

    Someone went to a location with the sole intent of shooting as many people as possible.

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      10 months ago

      I doubt the people caught in the crossfire of a bar fight care that the angry idiots shooting toward them are drunk instead of depressed.

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        10 months ago

        And yet when you track crime, hopefully you have the intent of using that to prevent and deter future crimes, and if you end up treating a school shooting like a bar fight or vice versa, you’re not gonna get the results you want. The victims conditions are not the reason for crime statistics, I doubt it matters much what the victims were thinking when it comes to preventing future perps.

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        10 months ago

        I’d wager most people hear “mass shooting” and think it’s some guy at a school or a mall with an AR-15 and that’s absolutely not what’s happening.

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            10 months ago

            Because someone out there is trying desperately to manipulate public opinion. I’m encouraging you to see what they’re doing here.

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              10 months ago

              I see you trying to downplay mass shootings in every fuckin thread about them I see on here and it’s gettin real tiring reading your dumbass comments.

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                10 months ago

                It’s hard arguing against fear. Fear is easy, logic and reasoning is not. I want folks to realize they are being lied to. Hopefully more people will catch on to the game that’s being played here.