A serious question

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7. Here's the problem I see with definitions and "N"

For law enforcement, federal, state or local, they use the 3 or 4 victims standard. That's great for trying to show there is a BIG problem. But the dominant (white?) community doesn't really give a shit about that.

The advantage of those big numbers is they make statistical analysis really meaningful. If only those murders happened in a subpopulation that caused people to demand action...

The BIG mass shootings are actually pretty rare...to uncommon to really avail themselves to statistical analysis. But, THOSE shootings take place outside of impoverished neighborhoods and strike subpopulations that get the dominant class (WHITE) of people really upset.

Having worked as a state epidemiologist I can tell you that STATISTICS are THE TOOLS that public health isssues are dealth with. The massacers that upset people are too rare to be statistically analyzed. The mass-shootings that have the numbers to analyze are considered background problems of impoverished neighborhoods, and too complicated to address.

It's really screwed up. The lives of poor people of color DO MATTER