09-06-2019, 04:56 PM
You tell me. How many do you see wanting to consider anything other than single purpose (kill people) public mass shootings?
Most right wingers will not consider using data such as compiled here... https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repor...s-shooting
We are up to 300 for 2019, had 337 in 2018, 346 in 2017.
The nice thing about this database is that it is referenced and you can research individual shootings fairly easily.
An interesting part of the problem is that there is no formal definition that anyone wants to agree upon. Every time somebody does a major study, they tend to define it slightly differently than previous studies.
For example, the leading right wing expert, Lott, went with this definition...
So for his purposes, it had to be a mass murder before it could be a mass shooting and the shooting could not have occurred during the commission of some other crime, so again, if 50 people were shot at a public sporting event, but only 3 died, he would not include it as a mass shooting.
Most right wingers will not consider using data such as compiled here... https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repor...s-shooting
We are up to 300 for 2019, had 337 in 2018, 346 in 2017.
The nice thing about this database is that it is referenced and you can research individual shootings fairly easily.
An interesting part of the problem is that there is no formal definition that anyone wants to agree upon. Every time somebody does a major study, they tend to define it slightly differently than previous studies.
For example, the leading right wing expert, Lott, went with this definition...
Quote:Lott said he included mass shootings in which four or more were killed that occurred in public, and he excluded those that occurred within the commission of another crime such as an armed robbery.https://www.politifact.com/florida/state...ree-zones/
So for his purposes, it had to be a mass murder before it could be a mass shooting and the shooting could not have occurred during the commission of some other crime, so again, if 50 people were shot at a public sporting event, but only 3 died, he would not include it as a mass shooting.
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