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To: Lazamataz

According to this link, there have been 146 mass shootings [more than one injured or killed] in 2016.

https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data

Many of them just do not get national news coverage.


53 posted on 05/20/2016 9:31:10 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

>> Many of them just do not get national news coverage <<

Definitely. The coverage usually depends on other news of the day.

For example, if there had been a big mass shooting yesterday, it would scarcely have been noticed by the MSM — maybe not noticed at all — since just about all of the media glitterati were breathless for 24+ hours with fact-free theories about the missing Egyptian airliner.


84 posted on 05/20/2016 11:19:25 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: TomGuy
According to this link, there have been 146 mass shootings [more than one injured or killed] in 2016.

The term "mass shooting" is as made up as the term "assault weapon." The FBI's crime statistics only define a mass killing, not a mass shooting.

Mass Shooting Tracker has fabricated such a broad definition of a "mass shooting" just so they can come up with a sensational number as 146 mass shootings so far in 2016.

Even the liberal rag Mother Jones agrees that Mass Shooting Tracker goes way too far.

93 posted on 05/20/2016 12:03:53 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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