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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's a difference between a mass casualty event and the technical definition of a mass shooting. One is easily met by gangs doing a drive by. The other requires multiple emergency rooms, triaging people, and calling up neighboring counties for more resources.

I'll leave you to figure out which one is a loaded political term and which one is the thing that gets 48 hours of close coverage on the news.

[-] Semicolon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Seems like only in America "political terms" are loaded with actual bullets and regularly shoot bystanders in schools, nightclubs, malls and other public spaces.