Posted on 09/02/2019 8:09:12 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
Because they aren’t mass shootings?
“Because they aren’t mass shootings?”
Probably more due to concern about ‘stigmatizing’ certain types of people who actually do most of these mass shootings.
That would not be the correct answer.
"Mass shootings" as most recently defined by the FBI is an incident with 4 or more victims injured or killed by firearms. All of the incidents in the downloaded file meet this filter.
Yes, the FBI has changed the definition of "Mass shootings" several times. 4 victims is what they are going with at the moment. Pick any threshold you want and try again. There have been more incidents than you would expect.
One thing that stands out in the selected data is that in most of the incidents, the victims and the shooters are Black or Hispanic.
One might quickly develop the theory that most of these incidents get little exposure in the national news media because they do not fit the preferred Liberal narratives.
By definition, they are.
Correct.
They fit the definition, but not the agenda.
Black-on-black shootings in Chicago. A very good running tally.
As Freeper Yaelle said:
BLEBLICM
There are many reasons we won’t hear about them: The victims/shooter aren’t of the “correct” racial or political demographic, the weapon used did not fit an agenda, shootings are a regular occurrence in the area of said mass shooting, or a civilian ended the shooter’s spree, among others I can’t think of at the moment.
If you count shootings involving three or more victims they commit 90% of them...
Libs screaming to changing it to 1 killed or injured as mass shooting, unless in lib controlled city.
The first and only instance on the list I looked at was a home invasion robbery. Not quite what most of us think of as a "mass shooting".
When these "mass shooting" stats are brandished they are used to persuade people of the threat to the general public posed by guns. It's important to point out these stats include very different things.
I have not seen this defined. If 4 idiots break into my home and I defend the home front with a pump 500 with #4 Buck am I the mass shooter? If they’re dumb enough to do it. It’s a question that will get answered, with extreme prejudice. Just saying.
For the most part, the shootings listed lack randomness. They are mostly shootings committed among people who have chosen to participate in the illegal drug trade and turf wars.
The victims in Midland and Odessa had no idea that they placed them selves in a dangerous situation. The victims in El Paso were all innocent, as were the victims in Dayton, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe, Sandy Hook, Stoneman Douglas, etc. etc.
It is the randomness and the innocence of the victims that draws our attention, thus making these events more tragic.
They shouldn’t be happening anywhere. Our society is sick.
Are these photos of US-based shooters?
AFAIK they are. Sorry I don’t have the source.
The current database is only telling a limited story. It might be helpful if the shooter was identified as (1) drug user, (2) paranoid schizophrenic, (3) gang member, (4) criminal record ‘player’, or (5) under treatment for mental issues (like PTSD or bi-polar, or even suicidal).
The one interesting characteristic I can see from the past decade....once you have a mass shooting, it’s a 99-percent chance that it’s a male, and not a female.
Bump
There is a picture montage of every mass shooter in recent history. Most have something in common and it ain’t that they are white.
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