This weekend’s mass shootings come as the country mourns the victims of its deadliest mass shooting this year. Days earlier, 18 people were killed in a shooting in Lewiston, Maine.

    • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Americans so numb to mass shootings they think four people being injured or killed by guns in the same incident shouldn’t count as a “mass shooting.” Sane people reading this are horrified though.

      America’s horrible relationship to guns isn’t new though I’ll give you that.

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        1 year ago

        It’s about being honest in reporting. People involved in selling heroin on the corner getting shot is fundamentally different than people in a church/school/bar/mall getting shot.

        It would be like calling every car accident involving more than one pedestrian or more than 2 cars, a mass ramming incident. There’s not an epidemic of people using cars to kill a bunch of people, but there’s enough drunk drivers and people texting to make it look that way if you try.

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          1 year ago

          People don’t like getting shot I think. And this doesn’t happen in other developed countries to nearly this extent so it’s clearly preventable. I agree though, we should also be concerned with the overwhelming amount of gun violence that doesn’t involve four or more people too.