Two EMTs were injured after a man opened fire on them as they responded to an unrelated medical incident. The man then drove to a nearby structure fire and shot at nearby people, killing a bystander and wounding a firefighter
:what-the-hell:
The precise inclusion criteria are disputed, and there is no broadly accepted definition.
It is absolutely comical that this article is allowed to exist.
I think it's perfectly fine, if the article gave a definition it is using for mass shooting and used it consistently. The article (probably due to some weird wikipedia policy) uses incidents which were identified explicitly as a mass shooting by at least two of a preselected collection of 7 sources. Which is bizarre. It's literally more straightforward to select subsets of events which match a pre-made definition, than use events which are identified as X by external sources.
Edit: I just hate this sort of wiki-brain. The fact they consider off-loading decision making to external sources to be "unbiased" when literally less information is obscured to give a definition, apply it consistently, and use sources just to check whether the definition is met.
If they stopped, that would be good. But they won't, because they can milk these events for that BREAKING NEWS LIVE COVERAGE that they crave.
Plus, that coverage is just propaganda by wealthy urbanites who have a policy agenda in mind.
Yeah there comes a point where you have to report on the news versus outweighing the risks of constantly pushing these stories to the front. And that's not to mention inspiring copycats.
But yesterday there were only 2, but the day before that there were 6, and the day before that there were 3, and the day before that there were also 3, and the day before that there …
Higher population density compared to a city like LA, a police force that uses black sites
What do you mean by black sites? Do black sites make people want to shoot into a house?
It's been argued that violence from authorities can lead to a desensitization to violence among the general population which in turn can possibly lead to increased aggressive thoughts and disinhibition of aggressive behaviors
The demographics of the perpetrators matches the demographics of the area
The conditions that lead directly to these outcomes are created by structures of power on purpose to dispose of excess labor population.
I was gonna ask if there are any states that haven't had any, and it looks like both Alaska and Hawaii have somehow skirted this phenomena. Any mainland ones I missed?
i assume this is counting the ones that got the most press: https://www.statista.com/statistics/811541/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-state/ but basically most of the great plains (except colorado obv), new jersey, the midwest not counting illinois are pretty safe.
Also this article counts 16 states that have not had a shooting so far this year, but this is back in april so im sure that list has decreased: https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/188-killed-in-u-s-mass-shootings-so-far-this-year/
I want a mass shooting but it's with a crossbow or throwing knives
If people gotta die because someone thinks 5g is gonna give us all AIDS or because women won't fuck him at least make it a spectacle. I'm no longer shocked at mass shootings anymore. I'm hollow.
