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6. The changed definition of a "mass shooting" has racial undertones

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2023, 03:09 AM

Jan 2023

When the Republican-Owned Media redefined the term mass shooting a few years ago, the number of victims was reduced to 4. Before that, the victim counts that qualified as mass shootings were in the teens or higher. And the shooters were predominantly white men.

As a result of redefinition, the number of mass shooting occurrences — not total victims — has skyrocketed. And mass shooters have gone from white to mostly black or POC.

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Three weeks and 38 mass shootings. This is America in 2023. [View all] Swede Jan 2023 OP

Nothing will be done. That is also America in 2023. RockRaven Jan 2023 #1

What will it take? TigressDem Jan 2023 #3

The gun violence serves a purpose, the GOP will not give it up. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #10

I have a SLIGHTLY less cynical opinion groundloop Jan 2023 #16

Don't forget that Putin funded the NRA. So it is more than profit. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #19

I share that less cynical opinion.. whathehell Jan 2023 #21

I share that less cynical opinion.. whathehell Jan 2023 #22

that increases the value of the insane certitude that their leaders feed them like a drug, easing th certainot Jan 2023 #18

nothing can get done because the GOP is afraid to piss off the RW radio stations that get them elect certainot Jan 2023 #17

The GOP controls the radio stations. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #20

the gop used to control the radio stations but the kremlin pulled limbaugh/rw radio away from establ certainot Jan 2023 #24

Yes the US media is a propaganda arm of the Kremlin. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #25

IMO it started with talk radio and by 2008 allowing further radicalization of the GOP by putin certainot Jan 2023 #26

Yep. The hate talk radio was everywhere. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #27

i'm saying there are a lot of people giving up on democracy or talking about being certainot Jan 2023 #28

I'll take reality over happy talk any day. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #29

So far this year 2023 US Deaths by Gun Violence ALL TYPES - 2,791 / Suicide 1,584 TigressDem Jan 2023 #2

gun humping cowards WON Skittles Jan 2023 #4

But THANK GOD they took the gay M&Ms off the TV Blue Owl Jan 2023 #5

The changed definition of a "mass shooting" has racial undertones live love laugh Jan 2023 #6

I don't know if racism was a motive, but I was glad to see the the number of victims required to Martin68 Jan 2023 #15

I Fully Expect It To Get Even Worse In Years To Come SoCalDavidS Jan 2023 #7

How many of them were done by Females ? JI7 Jan 2023 #8

The shooters are always men. Why do they keep passing laws to get women under control? Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #9

Yet DownriverDem Jan 2023 #11

There needs to be a TV channel that is only for shootings. twodogsbarking Jan 2023 #12

More Guns, Mo Money Dirty Socialist Jan 2023 #13

24 days. 43 mass shootings so far. niyad Jan 2023 #14

We are living with tyranny disguised as freedom dlk Jan 2023 #23