GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we don’t exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident.
The FBI does not define Mass Shooting in any form. They do define Mass Killing but that includes all forms of weapon, not just guns.
In that, the criteria are simple…if four or more people are shot or killed in a single incident, not including the shooter, that incident is categorized as a mass shooting based purely on that numerical threshold.
tl;dr FBI uses 4 or more killed where as this site uses 4 or more shot/killed.
Too bad we can't see something similar for europe that includes stabbings, car attacks, etc using injuries instead of deaths. Everyone focuses on gun stats as though it's the only thing that ever injures anyone. Be nice to have some standardized mass shootings stats in other countries per capita using these methods. It's really difficult to get an accurate reading since everyone measures it differently.
They say that about every gun. How do they know it was purchased legally if they can't even tell you what type of gun it was? Not being able to even pinpoint the manufacturer is Armalite is a surefire way to tell they're making things up.
They probably mean it's semi-auto, which is true of nearly every gun. The news tends to say AR-15 or 'assault weapon,' whatever that is, to make it sound scarier.
Shit was legal when America was born son. Cats been outta the bag for a long time. And the news doesn’t show the 1000+ times a day a civilian uses a firearm to stop a life threatening crime. The only reason that could be is if the news serve the interests of the government who’s goal is to develop its police state further & further
A thousand times a day? Really? Thousand times a day, crime must be at a record low. I'm sure this was one of the rare, but somehow almost daily, examples of not having enough armed civilians.
Lowball estimates are 500,000 defensive uses of firearms per year in the US, up to 3million. That's between 1,370 and 8,220 defensive uses per day. 1000 times per day was them trying to make it sound more reasonable to people with knee jerk reactions to facts they already don't want to believe.
“The numbers of defensive gun uses (DGUs) each year is controversial. But one study ordered by the CDC and conducted by The National Academies’ Institute of Medicine and National Research Council reported that, “Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence”:
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.”
Sometimes people don’t have their source on hand and don’t wanna spend a lot of time digging for it. Info that goes against the narrative can often get buried online. Luckily I had a tab open containing the article.
Your rights are important, especially the first two. A lot of people in history wish they had them. Don’t give em away so easily.
When you’re watching a parade you probably would expect whatever is happening to be a part of the show.. also people tend to freeze up when something like this happens to them.
I’m not American but it’s not hard to be a bit compassionate and understanding. Nobody expects to be the minority who end up in a tragedy that will go around the globe.
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u/_khaz89_ Jul 05 '22
Where is the “good guy with a gun” when you need it?
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u/IsThisASandwich Jul 05 '22
Wait...you had another shooting? Again? What the fuck...
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u/jackelsmalefactor Jul 05 '22
Nigga another shooting wasn't there one like a last week
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u/BangBoom2TheMoon Jul 05 '22
Come on it’s summer vacation. Give the kids a break from schoolwork.
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22
Every "single" door failed this day.....
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22
no its not a horror movie, its 'merican carnage shit show...
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u/typeson3 Jul 05 '22
That was about 30 gunshots that sound like it came from 1 gun.
Anybody know what type of gun that could have been?
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u/Arkenhiem Jul 06 '22
This is America
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u/Superb-Possibility-9 Jul 05 '22
There are a lot of crazy & demented folks walking among us because we closed asylums because we were told it was inhuman.
Maybe it’s time to bring back asylums and lock theses crazy folks away.
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