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America and mass shootings 18:18 - Apr 10 with 834 views

noggin

20200 people lost their lives in mass shootings in 2022, according to Sky News. Surely that is not correct.

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America and mass shootings on 18:26 - Apr 10 with 800 views

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It’s approx 20k gun deaths total for 2022 (excluding suicide by gun). Mass shooting is defined as a shooting where 4 or more people are shot. So you are right in that Sky have their numbers wrong.

My son’s school had their annual active shooter drill this morning. What a facking country.

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America and mass shootings on 18:28 - Apr 10 with 791 views

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It isn't.

On the basis that even Wikipedia is more reliable than sky, there were 762 deaths (including the shooters) and 2,902 woundings in 695 incidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_202

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America and mass shootings on 18:30 - Apr 10 with 785 views

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America and mass shootings on 18:26 - Apr 10 by Illinoisblue
It’s approx 20k gun deaths total for 2022 (excluding suicide by gun). Mass shooting is defined as a shooting where 4 or more people are shot. So you are right in that Sky have their numbers wrong. My son’s school had their annual active shooter drill this morning. What a facking country.

Mrs Factual used to have to do lockdown drills - shooter on base - at a US military facility in the UK where she worked.

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America and mass shootings on 18:31 - Apr 10 with 772 views

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America and mass shootings on 18:28 - Apr 10 by factual_blue
It isn't. On the basis that even Wikipedia is more reliable than sky, there were 762 deaths (including the shooters) and 2,902 woundings in 695 incidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_202

And the holiday months - June to September - are when the most incidents take place. Perhaps the locals don't like visitors.

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America and mass shootings on 18:35 - Apr 10 with 757 views

Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior

The media usually focus on Mass shootings for some reason instead of overall gun deaths / homicide rates.

America and mass shootings on 18:43 - Apr 10 with 736 views

Nthsuffolkblue

America and mass shootings on 18:30 - Apr 10 by factual_blue
Mrs Factual used to have to do lockdown drills - shooter on base - at a US military facility in the UK where she worked.

But not at school. It seems more reasonable in a military setting that this might happen regardless of which country the base is in.

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America and mass shootings on 18:49 - Apr 10 with 718 views

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America and mass shootings on 18:35 - Apr 10 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior
The media usually focus on Mass shootings for some reason instead of overall gun deaths / homicide rates.

Probably because shooting deaths are so common there, you can only report so many, I'd imagine.

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America and mass shootings on 19:32 - Apr 10 with 676 views

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Disturbing to see two black legislators in Tennessee expelled from the legislature for leading protests for stricter gun control following a mass shooting, when the white legislator who did the same was not expelled.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/black-tennessee-residents-frustra

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America and mass shootings on 20:17 - Apr 10 with 625 views

Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior

America and mass shootings on 18:49 - Apr 10 by BlueBadger
Probably because shooting deaths are so common there, you can only report so many, I'd imagine.

Yes unfortunately so and I get reporting on so many at a national level maybe but it's actual data isn't it. Not sure why mass shootings should be more a topic than total homicides but then the politics comes into it from both sides unfortunately. Gun control v inner city policing instead of worrying about actually saving lives and preventing both.

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