261 mass shootings so far this year in the US
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The claim that the United States had 251 mass shootings in the first 216 days of 2019 originates from data collected by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit organization that tracks gun-related violence in the U.S. The GVA counts any incident in which four or more people were shot and/or killed. Also, the GVA list includes ALL incidents of gun violence, meaning that they dont exclude incidents involving gangs or domestic violence: GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we dont exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/25...ootings-in-us/ |
261 mass shootings so far this year in the US
On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 16:11:53 +0100, Bod wrote:
SNOPES: The claim that the United States had 251 mass shootings in the first 216 days of 2019 originates from data collected by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit organization that tracks gun-related violence in the U.S. The GVA counts any incident in which four or more people were shot and/or killed. Also, the GVA list includes ALL incidents of gun violence, meaning that they dont exclude incidents involving gangs or domestic violence: GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we dont exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/25...ootings-in-us/ Essentially they co mingle every beef between drug dealers in inner city street corners with a school shooting like they are all the same. The cops don't really even investigate those drug shootings unless they are there watching because otherwise there are no witnesses thus most go unsolved. |
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