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OMGWTF

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7. It's only the mass shootings that we usually hear about.

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2023, 08:37 PM

Jan 2023

IIRC, that means there had to be at least four people shot. How many instances are not taken into account that involved three or fewer people that we don't hear about?

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I have to say, the latest shooting in Half Moon Bay [View all] senseandsensibility Jan 2023 OP

At some point most of the US will have PTSD from gun violence. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #1

LIHOP Marthe48 Jan 2023 #2

Every mass shooting is a free marketing event for the gun industry. Demobrat Jan 2023 #4

Some, at least the ramped-up hate-filled rhetoric, is more MIHOP. niyad Jan 2023 #8

I was thinking of that after I posted Marthe48 Jan 2023 #11

Thank You For This ConstanceCee Jan 2023 #3

Thank you. senseandsensibility Jan 2023 #17

We need so much more than gun laws. SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2023 #5

It's actually hard to keep up with all these. usonian Jan 2023 #6

It's only the mass shootings that we usually hear about. OMGWTF Jan 2023 #7

Exactly. Mass shootings, at leadt the list I check, is 4 or more dead or wounded, niyad Jan 2023 #9

Mother Jones data counts mass shootings as three or more victims since 2013 mnhtnbb Jan 2023 #16

Mother Jones data is about three or more killed. It does not include the niyad Jan 2023 #18

Mother Jones database includes injured mnhtnbb Jan 2023 #19

We had 22,900 murders in 2021 Elessar Zappa Jan 2023 #10

All the shootings in Chicago EVERY weekend Raine Jan 2023 #13

flooding 2 weeks ago BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #12

Thank you so much. senseandsensibility Jan 2023 #14

agree republianmushroom Jan 2023 #15

Also there are judges in California that need are gun humpers we need to get rid of also. msfiddlestix Jan 2023 #20