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Depending on the political leaning of the writer - different types of Mass Shootings are lumped together.
Buffalo was a terrorist event, no one lumps in 9/11 with plane crash figures and writes an article saying "We have high point of X plane crash deaths in 2001" - because that would be intellectually dishonest.
Of the 198 events, how many were related to criminal/gang shootings & how many were random/terrorist type events.
Buffalo was a terrorist event, no one lumps in 9/11 with plane crash figures and writes an article saying "We have high point of X plane crash deaths in 2001" - because that would be intellectually dishonest.
Of the 198 events, how many were related to criminal/gang shootings & how many were random/terrorist type events.
The article is discussing mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive, (whose data is posted in the article here[0],) as "an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter."
You seem to be implying some politically-motivated misrepresentation or classification of the data is occurring within the article, but the article only refers to the broad category of "mass shooting," which includes both terrorist events and criminal/gang shootings.
[0]https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
You seem to be implying some politically-motivated misrepresentation or classification of the data is occurring within the article, but the article only refers to the broad category of "mass shooting," which includes both terrorist events and criminal/gang shootings.
[0]https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
The article also states this:
"With just over 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week," when referring to the Buffalo shooting.
Saying "10 such attacks" implies the attacks are all similar in characteristics beyond just the number of people involved. The article talks about mental health, it talks about a pre-planned desire to kill. But it doesn't talk about gang violence. These are very different sources of intent. If you want to use the gun violence archive data to make a point, it should be about gun violence in totality - not cherry picking their numbers to make the case that the US is full of hate-filled crazies who are randomly shooting places up 10x per week.
"With just over 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week," when referring to the Buffalo shooting.
Saying "10 such attacks" implies the attacks are all similar in characteristics beyond just the number of people involved. The article talks about mental health, it talks about a pre-planned desire to kill. But it doesn't talk about gang violence. These are very different sources of intent. If you want to use the gun violence archive data to make a point, it should be about gun violence in totality - not cherry picking their numbers to make the case that the US is full of hate-filled crazies who are randomly shooting places up 10x per week.
>not cherry picking their numbers to make the case that the US is full of hate-filled crazies who are randomly shooting places up 10x per week.
This isn't an argument anyone, much less the article, is actually making, it's a strawman.
Plus, mental health and a pre-planned desire to kill obviously correlate with gang violence. Bloods killing crips and white supremacists shooting up restaurants are not as separate in their intent or root cause as you seem to believe.
This isn't an argument anyone, much less the article, is actually making, it's a strawman.
Plus, mental health and a pre-planned desire to kill obviously correlate with gang violence. Bloods killing crips and white supremacists shooting up restaurants are not as separate in their intent or root cause as you seem to believe.
For the random guy caught in the middle of a shooting the difference might look academic...
This sounds like a pre apology before someone brings up gun control.
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...