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US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders
(www.theguardian.com)
Whose record did we break? Our own?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Exactly. Congrats!
We're number 1!!! Eat it, Canada!
It's like the other countries aren't even trying.
Obviously
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We’re Number One!!!
USA! USA! USA!
Some, such as the Gun Violence Archive, include events in which multiple people are shot regardless of number of deaths, and so report much higher figures.
This carries a fun implication: let’s deflate the number of mass shooting by only including the deaths and not how many people are actually shot (and perhaps saved by emergency room personnel).
It also misses the damage done by witnessing that violence and being shot at and losing loved ones to gun violence.
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It also ignores any lingering effects the survivors might suffer, whether physically or mentally. Just because you're alive doesn't mean you are whole.
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It also encourages confusion that each mass shooting is someone trying to kill as many people as possible in a public place, when that overwhelmingly isn't actually true.
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That last part is important, because our emergency responders have gotten very good at saving lives (sadly, they've had to). People will point to deaths as the only relevant stat--and it's amazing that isn't enough for some people--but it's a huge burden and cost for healthcare.
Mass shooting, not mass killing. I'd even want to know about instances of multiple, unrelated targets. If we get a string of shooters with terrible aim and nobody is actually hurt I don't consider that an improvement of our epidemic.
I can already hear the wing conspiracy theories about how liberal doctors are letting mass shooting victims die in order to bolster the numbers.
Kind of like the conspiracies they’d throw around about the numbers of cases and deaths related to Covid.
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YEAH!
WE DID IT AMERICA!
U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A!
All these senseless murders every fucking year, and not one of them directed at the republicans that have ruined everything.
It's conservatives doing the shootings. Why does it seem that 95% of all mass shooters have a white supremacist manifesto?
Because white supremacists' arguments are easily dismantled to their core components of idiocy, racism and ignorance. They can't convince anyone who isn't a moron racist and they believe that those who don't think like they do are trying to replace them so they resort to mass murder. Because they are racist morons.
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Remember back in July 2022, when there was a mass shooting in Denmark and some Americans would say "see it happens even in a gun regulated country"?
There hasn't been one since...
If you make the same search for America, letter B is probably on ~~purge~~ page 3
purge 3
Quite the Freudian slip
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And we'll do nothing about it as always. On to the next year. America, you're a real winner.
Not true. We posted some "thoughts and prayers" messages to Facebook. What else did you expect, actual gun control?
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To celebrate the milestone, ArmaLite is offering a ten percent discount on the purchase of a new AR-15!
[I]n Dallas a 21-year-old with a previous aggravated assault charge shot five people in a house, including a toddler.
If that toddler was armed it wouldn't have happened
Sadly I would put more faith into a good guy toddler with a gun than the police from Uvalde.
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congrats?
"No way to prevent this"
"Says only country where this happens" :(
I'm excited for people to come into this thread and insist on a definition of assault rifle.
Or mass shooting
It's not a mass shooting unless it happens in Massachusetts, otherwise it's just sparkling shooting
USA! USA! USA! NUMBER 1 BAYBAY! (Shotgun blasts)
Isn't this old news already? Wasn't there already another mass shooting at UNLV that barely makes the news because this happens like three times a month?
What a world.
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Pro Life! Fuck yea!
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