• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.