• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Then people will complain that an accidental discharge in the school parking lot gets lumped in with this, or that mass shootings at schools get double counted because they’re mass shootings and school shootings, or some other nonsense to avoid admitting that there’s a problem.

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        10 months ago

        I really don’t understand their “gang killings don’t count as mass killings” argument. Like somehow those are different because gangs?

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          10 months ago

          I’m generally very anti-gun, but I can see the rationale behind separating gang killings. Just like separating out familicide from mass shootings where a person shoots their three kids, their wife, then themself. Not a mass shooting in the sense that the general public was at risk of being a target.

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          10 months ago

          I kind of get it. Like we were focusing on the shootings where someone goes to a school, a mall, concert, etc, and just starts killing people. It’s still a shooting, and people still die, and it is unnecessary violence, but it’s still different. Similar to how if I, a white guy, kill a black man, it’s just murder… until I do it while screaming the n word. Now suddenly its different.

          It also feels a little convenient in the aspect that people were pointing out how many of the mass shootings were done by white people… So then they add in gang shootings. Now more of them are done by other races.