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How many shootings now this year already?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/02/13/us-mass-shootings-hit-3-year-low-for-first-six-weeks-of-2024-but-deaths-remain-high/?sh=2af2256b209d
But don't worry. Mass shootings stans will go, "Well askually it's not a mass shooting because..." So the number depends on if the person
It's not a mass shooting, it's just sparkling homicide
The REAL Mass shootings come from Massachusetts.
it is darkly hilarious to me that shooting one person or two people just doesn't count as a shooting any more.
Of course those count as shootings, just not mass shootings. There have always been too many shootings to count - especially in the 90s, mainly due to the war on drugs. There has been an uptick in "mass shootings" in recent years, mainly because we didn't differentiate them from "shootings" until relatively recently...
I mean, "mass shooting" used to colloquially mean a random act against the public. I feel like people still think it means that when they see stats like this, but practically all the shootings in this stat are from gang violence and organized crime. A drive-by is a mass shooting.
Not to downplay the severity of it, but I hope people aren't thinking that there have been ~45 Kroger type shootings this year already. Solutions that address crime like this are different than addressing sick, politically motivated domestic terrorists. Not to say we don't need a lot of both, though.
Did the gilded age of America ever truly end?
We're in the leaded age. Golden age is far in thw future.
44?! How many days are we into 2024? FML.
Today is 46. So we are actually behind (or ahead?) for the year
Oh don't worry, we'll make it up, I'm sure.
Damn