09-06-2019, 01:20 PM
Funny how we don't like the term "assault" used to describe our weapons, but are happy to label other people's weapons with the same title.
Everyone wants a different definition, but if you go with the FBI's use of "mass" in "mass murder" then it is 4 or more killed in a single episode/location without a cooling off period and not including the suspect, then we have had hundreds of mass shootings in the last year where 4 or more people were shot in a single episode/location without a cooling off period, not including the shooter. "Mass" has to do with quantity and not location, circumstance, or motivation.
Most right wingers want to narrow that focus away from such a high number by only including "public mass shootings" that may be on private property, but out in public, not inclusive of anything familial or dealing with criminal activity other than the desire to kill. Some even go so far as to discounting in such shooting that doesn't result on 4 or more deaths other than the shooter. So a person could shoot 50 people at a sporting event, killing only 3, and it not be a mass shooting by the redefinition.
For most years, you are more likely to be involved in a familial mass shooting than any sort of public mass shooting. In other words, a loved one is more likely to kill you than a stranger. Also ranking highly are other felony mass shootings where the event starts off as something else, such as a robbery (e.g., North Hollywood bank robbery) and result on lots of people getting shot. These are often more numerous than "public mass shootings" such as what happened at Walmart, Tacoma Mall, etc.
Bottom line here, if you break down by the simple numbers, there are hundreds. If you start including all sorts of convenient excluders, the number drops conveniently.
What the public is most fearful of are public mass shootings. These are often the least common type per year in frequency, but may rack of higher body counts even if the total number of people killed or injured is below that of other types of mass shootings. These are the schools, malls, workplace shootings typically. They are the shootings that make the headlines for the longest periods of time.
LR1955 Wrote:500 mass shootings in the US in the last year?
Everyone wants a different definition, but if you go with the FBI's use of "mass" in "mass murder" then it is 4 or more killed in a single episode/location without a cooling off period and not including the suspect, then we have had hundreds of mass shootings in the last year where 4 or more people were shot in a single episode/location without a cooling off period, not including the shooter. "Mass" has to do with quantity and not location, circumstance, or motivation.
Most right wingers want to narrow that focus away from such a high number by only including "public mass shootings" that may be on private property, but out in public, not inclusive of anything familial or dealing with criminal activity other than the desire to kill. Some even go so far as to discounting in such shooting that doesn't result on 4 or more deaths other than the shooter. So a person could shoot 50 people at a sporting event, killing only 3, and it not be a mass shooting by the redefinition.
For most years, you are more likely to be involved in a familial mass shooting than any sort of public mass shooting. In other words, a loved one is more likely to kill you than a stranger. Also ranking highly are other felony mass shootings where the event starts off as something else, such as a robbery (e.g., North Hollywood bank robbery) and result on lots of people getting shot. These are often more numerous than "public mass shootings" such as what happened at Walmart, Tacoma Mall, etc.
Bottom line here, if you break down by the simple numbers, there are hundreds. If you start including all sorts of convenient excluders, the number drops conveniently.
What the public is most fearful of are public mass shootings. These are often the least common type per year in frequency, but may rack of higher body counts even if the total number of people killed or injured is below that of other types of mass shootings. These are the schools, malls, workplace shootings typically. They are the shootings that make the headlines for the longest periods of time.
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