• @Goblin_Mode
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    18 months ago

    public indiscriminate kind

    What does that even mean? Indiscriminately killing people in public? Like a mass shooting? Lol

    gang violence kind

    “Person opens fire into church killing 5 and injuring 12”

    “that’s a mass shooter”

    “the gunman was wearing red and those killed wore blue”

    “that’s gang violence”

    Do you see how stupid that take is?

    3 kids shot a gun once goofing off in their school parking lot kind

    Oh my bad I thought you were being genuine, this is obviously bait, please carry on

    • @rchive@lemm.ee
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      18 months ago

      Some lists of “mass shootings” include only the public indiscriminate kind, which is what basically everyone thinks of when they hear the phrase “mass shooting,” but some do include actual gang violence (turf war) or other violence based around other crime (drug deal gone bad). Your red shirt blue shirt scenario is cute, but that would still probably be the public indiscriminate kind. The two phenomena are very different.

      There was an article from a big US news source a few years ago about how there had been over a hundred school shootings in the US that year. Can’t remember which source. The list of events included many that happened near a school or on school property but only incidentally. There was at least one where kids shot a gun in a school parking lot when no one else was around. Of course that’s still a problem, but again that’s a very different phenomenon than a “school shooting” where someone tries to murder 20 students. That’s why I brought that up.