• congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I wouldn’t call this a mass shooting tbh.

        Edit: folks; this appears to be a single household shooting. Not a mass shooting. In the US we have many kinds of shootings. Educate yourselves :)

        • Wraldan [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          5 people dead, and not a mass shooting? Wtf America how many needs to die ?

          • LangdonAlger [any]
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            4 years ago

            i agree with your sentiment, but, based on my reading of the article, it feels like a family dispute/murder (happened in a home at 4am) whereas mass shootings tend to exist to maximize casualties in a large gathering

          • Virgil_Is_Dead [any]
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            4 years ago

            This is America. Those are amateur numbers and we're all psychopaths.

          • _else [she/her,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            that depends; what label are you going for, how are the people connected, where did each die, and how far apart were their deaths(chronologically, where the previous question can tell us spatially)?

            there's a whole system for the taxonomy of these things.

            • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Here's the thing. You said a "household shooting is a mass shooting." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies mass shootings, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls household shootings mass shootings...

              • _else [she/her,they/them]
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                4 years ago

                i think you might be replying to the wrong person? the comment you're replying do at least doesn't say that,

                im literally saying your job is real and a thing, in a tounge in cheek "this is our culture, stop being so ignorant" sort of way.

          • deadtoddler420 [any]
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            4 years ago

            I remember reading about a scoreboard on Encyclopedia Dramatica when i was an edgy teenager, but fuck, if it doesnt get high on that scoreboard its basically not news at this point. Shit sucks man.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          4 years ago

          We have enough shootings in this country to have several different categories of them.

          That's how many we have.