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Multiple mass shootings over Halloween weekend leave 11 dead and scores injured (www.npr.org)

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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.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 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.