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Donald Ian Rankin

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2. Who cares?

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 04:04 AM

Dec 2015

I can see why the number of people shot matters a lot, and arguably the number of people who shoot people matters a bit.

But I'm not convinced that the breakdown into "mass" and "non-mass" shootings is much more than semantics. 100 people killed in 100 individual shootings matter just as much as 100 people killed by one gunman.

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How Many Mass Shootings Are There, Really? [View all] Jesus Malverde Dec 2015 OP

"Family disputes" are no longer even reported ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2015 #1

Who cares? Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2015 #2

It matters to those who decide which shootings will be tv extravaganzas HereSince1628 Dec 2015 #6

The FBI classifies mass shooting as four or more, so there IS a definition. CBGLuthier Dec 2015 #3

4 or more seems arbitrary, if 3 are killed they're just as dead. brush Dec 2015 #4

Not really correct. Jesus Malverde Dec 2015 #5