Current Events > So, apparently we're at almost 1 mass shooting per day in 2017...

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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:02:32 AM
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bluezero
06/15/17 11:03:38 AM
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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:04:58 AM
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That graphic is out of date already because of today's shootings...
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The Admiral
06/15/17 11:09:28 AM
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And they're mostly black-on-black gang violence:

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
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NinjaBreakfast
06/15/17 11:10:24 AM
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The Admiral posted...
black-on-black

right on cue
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Clad
06/15/17 11:10:32 AM
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It's mostly gang violence.
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The Admiral
06/15/17 11:10:58 AM
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NinjaBreakfast posted...
The Admiral posted...
black-on-black

right on cue


Sorry that reality triggers you.
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Chicken
06/15/17 11:11:13 AM
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Isnt that the case every single year?
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NinjaBreakfast
06/15/17 11:11:47 AM
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The Admiral posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
The Admiral posted...
black-on-black

right on cue


Sorry that reality triggers you.

right on cue again
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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:12:09 AM
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Chicken posted...
Isnt that the case every single year?


No idea
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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:13:00 AM
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If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.
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ModLogic
06/15/17 11:13:06 AM
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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:14:23 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/14/the-gop-baseball-shooting-is-the-154th-mass-shooting-this-year/

Apparently, it's been going up recently

https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/06/mass_shootings2.png

I'm not sure how heavily the so-called "black on black gang violence" factors in, but here's a list of incidents:

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

You could just click on each of them to see what they were
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Chicken
06/15/17 11:14:29 AM
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AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


But that IS the definition law enforcement agencies use.
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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:14:48 AM
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The site this comes from is also notoriously unreliable. They include shootings that can't be verified to have actually happened, shootings that don't even fit their own made up definition, and more than one "mass ahooting" committed with a pellet gun in which nobody was injured.
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hortanz
06/15/17 11:14:59 AM
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AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


The definition used here is the closest to a standard there is since it mirrors the Congressional Research Service's one
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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:15:17 AM
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AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


Except it's not really an "anonymous person." Look up the links I posted for source
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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:15:28 AM
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Chicken posted...
AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


But that IS the definition law enforcement agencies use.

No it isn't. Find me a single law enforcement agency using that definition.
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frozenshock
06/15/17 11:15:59 AM
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AlephZero posted...
The site this comes from is also notoriously unreliable. They include shootings that can't be verified to have actually happened, shootings that don't even fit their own made up definition, and more than one "mass ahooting" committed with a pellet gun in which nobody was injured.


It's only those with 4+ injured
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hortanz
06/15/17 11:17:10 AM
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The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition, and defines a "public mass shooting"[2] as one in which four or more people selected indiscriminately, not including the perpetrator, are killed, echoing the FBI definition[3][4] of the term "mass murder".

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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:17:45 AM
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hortanz posted...
AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


The definition used here is the closest to a standard there is since it mirrors the Congressional Research Service's one

No it doesn't. The CRS defines a mass shooting as four or more people (selected indiscriminately) dying, not including the shooter.
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Clad
06/15/17 11:18:41 AM
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I bet a lot of that is influenced by crime in Chicago. Some areas are getting worse and worse.
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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:21:42 AM
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frozenshock posted...
AlephZero posted...
If you use a definition for "mass shooting" that was literally made up by an anonymous person on the internet and not used by any law enforcement agency or researcher on the planet, sure. When you make up your own definitions you can make the data say whatever you want.


Except it's not really an "anonymous person." Look up the links I posted for source

The founder of the mass shooting tracker site (who remains anonymous) was literally quoted in an interview saying "Three years ago I decided, all by myself, to change the United States’ definition of mass shooting.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html
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AlephZero
06/15/17 11:27:29 AM
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frozenshock posted...
AlephZero posted...
The site this comes from is also notoriously unreliable. They include shootings that can't be verified to have actually happened, shootings that don't even fit their own made up definition, and more than one "mass ahooting" committed with a pellet gun in which nobody was injured.


It's only those with 4+ injured

Yes, that is what they claim. It's not reflected in their list. Here are all of the problems with their list in the years 2013-2015:

https://www.reddit.com/r/progun/comments/3o91bv/auditing_the_mass_shooting_tracker_part_3_a_look/
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