From Jan. 1 to June 30, the nation endured 28 mass killings, all but one of which involved guns. The death toll rose just about every week.
Lovely 😐
Thoughts and prayers are really working wonders.
Deadliest 6 months of mass killings so far.
Second half of 2023 cracking its knuckles.
Is it bad my initial reaction was, “That’s it?” This figure sounds really low when compared to a “mass shooting” which has similar criteria (4 victims shot, injured or killed), but the distinction is whether or not those shot died.
I’m pretty tired of this topic. Especially when it’s always framed as a mental health issue. Well, what about the mental health of everyone else aside from the shooters?? Are we just supposed to sit around and pretend like everything’s fine?
Our “leaders” aren’t even doing the basics like pushing for greater restrictions on purchasing involving background checks. In half the country it’s possible to buy a gun without any form of background check, then carry it around without any kind of license; that’s obviously not working!
Gun industry heavily relies on mentally ill people and their paranoid delusions to fuel their profits. They are the people who are buying dozens and dozens of guns.
“for example, a report published in 2017 by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities. The authors estimate that of the 265 million privately owned firearms in the US, about half are owned by 3% of the US adult population. And while about half of gun owners own one or two guns, 8% of gun owners own 10 or more – a figure that amounts to about 40% of the total US gun stock, according to the report.”
Normal mentally well gun owners own own like 1-3 weapons, because why would any sane person need more than that? They aren’t making money off your average joe who buys a handgun/shotgun. They are making it off the nutbags who own 20 different combat rifles and all the tacticool accessories so they can cosplay on the weekends as soldiers and ‘train’ who sit around on the internet bragging about how ‘prepared’ they are for some doomsday scenario.
I had a similar reaction, way to bury the lead on that headline.
We have on average one mass shooting PER DAY
Lede.
TIL! Interesting bit of newsroom history from that googling, thanks.
To my knowledge only one political advocacy group uses that definition. Prior to this group being founded in the last several years, the definition has been four or more killed in a shooting typically unrelated to any other crime. You know incidents like Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, or Las Vegas. You won’t really see any legitimate sources use that definition like the Congressional Research service or most academics.
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That requires that capital is transferred from the elites to the general population, and that won’t happen under the current power structures.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself man. Although don’t discount the brain rot with my millennial generation. I meet a lot of millennials who vote just like the boomers do.
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Seeing this exchange brings mixed emotions to my Gen X self.
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answer is NO… you don’t get a turn clown. This shit stops
Good. I think too many in gen x just got crushed by being so devoid of agency, politically speaking, that they just gave up. It’s been a struggle watching this country I was told to love and support unconditionally continuously spiral downward because the generation that preceeded me milked the system for all it was worth before stealing the same opportunities for social and economic advancement from future generations.
Need to start seeing graphic images of the bodies.
Anonymous should start hacking crime scene photos and sharing them on the internet for everyone to see.
Should be a civic duty to print out those photos and give them to everyone you know.
Let them see what a room for a 6-year-olds blown apart beyond recognition looks like.
A mass shooting Emmett Till.
What was the one that didn’t involve guns?
Arson
That photo is great because it’s horrible.
eh, only a record until next year
Probably just the next 6 months.
Only 13 States limit magazine capacity. Rest of them you can buy a 100 round drum mag for your AR 15
i dunno guys, sounds like the greatest country in the world to me.
We’re number 1!
…in mass killings
I haven’t heard of most of these incidents? Are these from street gangs shooting each other and bystanders or are they what typically dominates the news in the US like Sandy Hook? I feel like if it was the latter these would have had coverage.
They did have coverage, but people don’t have the energy to care any more because it just keeps happening
What coverage? A local news site covers, maybe a small article in a national news site so they can get clicks saying a mass shooting happened. But it drops off the radar almost immediately precisely because it isn’t a mass shooting. Uvalde had coverage for days and the typical gun politics debate in the national politics with speculation on whether or not it would impact elections in Texas. None of these other incidents that are being counted remotely have that kind of focus because they aren’t the same kind of phenomena and not because of a lack of energy.
I ceased believing this was a civil culture years ago. We’re an embarrassment. Other country’s citizens kill each other for sport. We kill each other for no reason.
We did it! Yay…?
