• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    That’s only one of the two mass shootings today.

    But there were 7 yesterday, and 7 the day before.

    AMERICA – THAT’S SIXTEEN SHOOTINGS IN 3 DAYS, killing 14 and wounding 78 others. THREE DAYS.

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      5 months ago

      The issue is that a lot of the “mass shootings” are not terror incidents like the school shootings we’ve all heard about.

      Take the Philly one, for instance. It was covered in my local media and I still don’t quite get what happened. It sounded like a fight miles away ended up in a gunfight in South Philly.

      The type of gun violence that really reverberates in the USA is the school shooting type of incident. It’s a lone gunman who has no relation to the victims.