A serious question

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2. We don't really have a good handle on what it is we are talking about and want to prevent

Mass shootings mostly aren't Sandy Hooks, Columbines, San Bernadinos, Orlandos or Virginia Techs, most mass shootings (those with more then 3 or 4 persons depending on what definition you go by) pass through the background news with almost no public concern.

Consequently suggesting as models mass shootings only the atypically large body count events such as the Sandy Hooks, Columbines, San Bernadinos, Orlandos or Virginia Techs, which also are atypical in their locations may widely miss a measure of the effectiveness of -any- method of reduction in gun violence.

Yes, of course, we want to prevent the Sandy Hooks, Columbines, San Bernadinos, Orlandos or Virginia Techs

But we've got to come to shared understanding of what is to be prevented. It seems that what we "want" to prevent is shootings involving other than brown people and those that are outside of impoverished neighborhoods/ communities.

It certainly feels like thinking on this problem still engages a social understanding that loss of multiple lives in some places is more dreadful than the loss of multiple other lives in other places.