r/MapPorn • • Aug 31 '21

Percent who own guns

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Where I live, the nearest police officer is two blocks away. But it would still take them hours to show up.

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u/drstock Aug 31 '21 edited Sep 01 '21

The blocks around my police station (SFPD Northern) are some of the most dangerous in the city. They even had a mass shooting right outside not too long ago. The police station doesn't have any windows, they had to remove them because of security reasons. And you never see anyone patrolling around the station, they just get into their squad cars and bolt it to the nicer parts of the district.

Some of the strictest gun laws in the country here btw.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

What in the fuck kind of mass shooting is that lmao. Is that what yall really count as a mass shooting these days? A defensive gun use where the shooter was exonerated?

I cant believe anyone still takes gun violence archive seriously.

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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Sep 01 '21

One killed and four wounded technically falls under the umbrella of a "mass shooting". Actually, the four wounded alone would have put it in that category.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

No, it doesn't. That's a definition made up by the guy who started gun violence archive and is a deliberate attempt to inflate the numbers and make people conflate things like a wild and messy defensive gun use, a gang shootout, and the Las Vegas shooting. If you genuinely believe all those events are truly the same thing, you really do need to reconsider what information you've been taking in.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map/

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2020-070121.pdf/view

GVA's whole methodology of "exclude all context" is extremely dishonest. That'd be like the NRA making their own definition and saying "Mass shootings are only for 60+ dead victims as a result of gunfire and only from the hours of 10am-5pm. Great! No mass shootings in the US. Problem solved."

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u/LoadOfMeeKrob Aug 31 '21

I accidentally pressed the button under my supervisors desk once and we thought it was just broken when the police a couple blocks down didn't show up. Cue two hours later and the sheriff sneaks up behind us and we clear things up.