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Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
8. Well, I guess the FBI definition of "mass murder" has been tortured out of existance...
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 03:07 PM
Jul 2015

Used to be four or more deaths (not including the perpetrator) in one setting at one time. I think it got lowered to three, then rolled into a new category, "active shooter."

From what I can gather there has been only one mass killing since Sandy Hook which occurred on school grounds. The California college killings involved three by gun, 3 by "knife/sharp-edged instrument" the latter method roundly ignored by DU controllers.

In Austin a mass murder was committed by some asshole driving a Honda up a closed street during the 2014 SXSW, and he was charged with four counts of murder. Ignored.

Of course, controllers all but ignore how school safety can be improved. I wonder why.

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