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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Well reality and the truth matters if you're crafting policy or trying to move forward, which "progressives" purport to want to do, but they take stances that move backward.
Here's what happens:
Somebody says White people commit terrorisms too!
And then I say "yeah but it barely matters"
And then I get banned for responding, even though the other person is the one racializing things in the first place. I'm not like running around yelling "brown people are doing bad terrors!!" unprovoked. We are a very dumb species.
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The problem is mass murder doesn't really have a constant, fixed definition
Some define it as x amount KILLED in a single shooting, others, like this wikipedia page, identify it as x amount SHOT in a single shooting, in this case 4 or more in a single incident, including the perpetrator
This definition of only people SHOT, not killed, will produce a large number of mass shootings in 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...States_in_2020
Now let's add up the total amount of dead from mass shootings in 2020 from wikkipedia using this form of definition: 521
Let's compare to the total numbers of murders in 2020: "A 25 percent increase in murder in 2020 would mean the United States surpassed 20,000 murders in a year for the first time since 1995. (The final official numbers for 2020 will not be released until late September.)" (source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/u...-rate-usa.html)
So, to not double up, let's subtract from the total murders, the total deaths from mass shootings: 20,000 - 521 = 19,479
521 versus 19,479. Remember the sesame street song "One of these numbers is not like the other!"
So even with this very encompassing definition of mass shootings, yes, they are largely insignificant compared to simple murder, in terms of the risk to the public