• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    No. It just takes some basic intelligence to figure out that mass shootings are shootings of multiple people. Sorry that concept is hard for you to understand.

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      11 months ago

      There is, fundamentally, a difference between a crime that, when reported, makes your average citizen go “OMG! That could have been me!” vs. a crime which, while tragic, does not endanger the general public or people at random.

      “Mass shooting” carries with it a sense of reckless disregard or casual indifference that does NOT apply to, say, crimes of passion.

      For example:

      https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/at-least-3-fatally-shot-in-dallas-home-suspect-wanted/

      Gun Violence Archive treats that as a mass shooting. Unless you lived next door to the shooter in question, you were never at risk. The shooting was not random, and it did not happen in a public space.

      So why do they categorize it as the same sort of crime as the UNLV shooting? Which was random and did take place in a public space?

      Because they have an agenda and want to pump up their numbers.

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        11 months ago

        Ummm…why would you not consider that a mass shooting? Do you not have neighbors? It kind of seems like that really could be anybody considering many people have at least one unhinged neighbor around them.