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[-] Xylinna@lemmy.world 161 points 11 months ago

Whose record did we break? Our own?

[-] Pea666@feddit.nl 95 points 11 months ago
[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

We're number 1!!! Eat it, Canada!

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

It's like the other countries aren't even trying.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago
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[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 110 points 11 months ago

We’re Number One!!!

USA! USA! USA!

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 17 points 11 months ago

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[-] Pea666@feddit.nl 90 points 11 months ago

Some, such as the Gun Violence Archive, include events in which multiple people are shot regardless of number of deaths, and so report much higher figures.

This carries a fun implication: let’s deflate the number of mass shooting by only including the deaths and not how many people are actually shot (and perhaps saved by emergency room personnel).

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 59 points 11 months ago

It also misses the damage done by witnessing that violence and being shot at and losing loved ones to gun violence.

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 50 points 11 months ago

It also ignores any lingering effects the survivors might suffer, whether physically or mentally. Just because you're alive doesn't mean you are whole.

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 29 points 11 months ago

It also encourages confusion that each mass shooting is someone trying to kill as many people as possible in a public place, when that overwhelmingly isn't actually true.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Mass shooting, not mass killing. I'd even want to know about instances of multiple, unrelated targets. If we get a string of shooters with terrible aim and nobody is actually hurt I don't consider that an improvement of our epidemic.

[-] chris@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

That last part is important, because our emergency responders have gotten very good at saving lives (sadly, they've had to). People will point to deaths as the only relevant stat--and it's amazing that isn't enough for some people--but it's a huge burden and cost for healthcare.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago

I can already hear the wing conspiracy theories about how liberal doctors are letting mass shooting victims die in order to bolster the numbers.

Kind of like the conspiracies they’d throw around about the numbers of cases and deaths related to Covid.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago

YEAH!

WE DID IT AMERICA!

U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A!

All these senseless murders every fucking year, and not one of them directed at the republicans that have ruined everything.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

It's conservatives doing the shootings. Why does it seem that 95% of all mass shooters have a white supremacist manifesto?

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Because white supremacists' arguments are easily dismantled to their core components of idiocy, racism and ignorance. They can't convince anyone who isn't a moron racist and they believe that those who don't think like they do are trying to replace them so they resort to mass murder. Because they are racist morons.

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

Remember back in July 2022, when there was a mass shooting in Denmark and some Americans would say "see it happens even in a gun regulated country"?

There hasn't been one since...

[-] PostaL@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you make the same search for America, letter B is probably on ~~purge~~ page 3

[-] sweetmartabak@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

purge 3

Quite the Freudian slip

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 47 points 11 months ago

And we'll do nothing about it as always. On to the next year. America, you're a real winner.

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Not true. We posted some "thoughts and prayers" messages to Facebook. What else did you expect, actual gun control?

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

To celebrate the milestone, ArmaLite is offering a ten percent discount on the purchase of a new AR-15!

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 38 points 11 months ago

[I]n Dallas a 21-year-old with a previous aggravated assault charge shot five people in a house, including a toddler.

If that toddler was armed it wouldn't have happened

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

Sadly I would put more faith into a good guy toddler with a gun than the police from Uvalde.

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[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago
[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago
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[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 31 points 11 months ago

Most mass shootings in a single year so far.

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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[-] sjkhgsi@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago
[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

"Says only country where this happens" :(

[-] blazera@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

Those fools! If only we had 1.3 guns per person to defend ourselves!

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 11 months ago

If only this was a purely sarcastic sentiment and not unironically spouted by libertarian gun nuts.

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[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

USA! USA! USA! NUMBER 1 BAYBAY! (Shotgun blasts)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I'm excited for people to come into this thread and insist on a definition of assault rifle.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Or mass shooting

It's not a mass shooting unless it happens in Massachusetts, otherwise it's just sparkling shooting

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Isn't this old news already? Wasn't there already another mass shooting at UNLV that barely makes the news because this happens like three times a month?

What a world.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

Pro Life! Fuck yea!

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