Posted on 05/09/2023 5:51:58 AM PDT by MrRelevant
The hope, of course, being that calling these clusters — or incidents or triple or quadruple shootings — what they actually are would elicit the same public outcry as those designated mass shootings.
But we’re still parsing out impact and outcry.
There have been 23 shootings so far this year with three or more victims, according to the Police Department’s shooting database. In essence, a mass shooting every five days. In February, seven people, including a 2-year-old girl and five teenagers, were shot in Strawberry Mansion.
Last year there were 74 shootings with three or more victims. And except for a few rare instances, they are described in all manner of ways except the one they should consistently be referred to: mass shootings, every single one.
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There have been 23 shootings so far this year with three or more victims, according to the Police Department’s shooting database. In essence, a mass shooting every five days. In February, seven people, including a 2-year-old girl and five teenagers, were shot in Strawberry Mansion.
Good points all. Let's parse, or more correctly, analyze some of the data that the article from this commie rag leaves out. Let us discuss, please, the ethnicity of the alleged perpetrators of these "mass shootings". That information seems to have been omitted from what is likely otherwise a very factual article. (/sarc).
Interesting how the media doesn’t say so much about WHO is doing the shooting but has a lot to say about what is being used to DO the shooting. Constantly blaming the tool but not the user makes one wonder if there is an agenda involved.
It’s the way the left wants it
Paving the way for the Crack down that is coming. Democrats forced to place people in the labor camps, a new Gulag in America in empty places like Montana and Wyoming and Alaska. Lots of people will cut down trees to feed the mills of China and make the rich families that own everything, even richer. Millions will go into the Gulag and thousands come out.
Calling them “mass shootings” only reinforces the false narrative that specific guns and magazines need to be banned.
Calling them what they really are, “gang violence” reinforces that the correct response is to toughen up on prosecution and incarceration of violent criminals.
But that narrative runs counter to the Woke Soros-backed D.A.s who allow criminals busted with firearms to walk with no bail, and no jail time.
Which leads to more “mass shootings...”
Unless, of course you WANT to destroy the nation that birthed you in Liberty and Freedom in exchange for slavery and servitude.
Can these people pick a definition and stick with it??? Is a “mass shooting” an incident with 3 or 4 victims? Can someone make up their mind and write it down, please???
The lesson to be learned is that young minorities have no self control and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near weapons.
I used the bogus Gun Violence in America site that everyone is quoting from. The records go back to 2013 so someday I’ll finish my review just for sh!ts & giggles.
The ethnicity of the shooters...and the victims. There were 10,000 black murder victims in the US last year, virtually all at the hands of other black people, with many of them in “mass shootings” by teenage males.
Lets also not look at what it would take to end those type shootings. You know criminal control.
For some reason there is a reluctance to talk about violence and mayhem committed by youth gangs. Perhaps it’s because of so many of the gang members are members of minority groups? I’ve never been able to figure that one out.
Butt, 100,000 +/- drug ODs/yr is all okee dokey right? Millions of invaders entering the country! All good. Them committing more crimes? Meh! They just looking for a faster gravy train. Dear author.....🖕
At that rate, it doesn’t take long to get up to Biden’s “200 mass shootings this year.” Philly, Chicongo, Baltimore, NOLA....
What a Great Society....
Its Philly, I think its implied.
Can’t be. Philly has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Everyone knows that gun laws reduce crime, right?
Tell blacks to stop murdering each other for the sake of t he dem party! Oh wait the dem party is currently importing their replacements:-)
And the blacks still haven’t figured that out yet:-)
If laws against something eliminate it then there can be no murders, no “mass shootings”, etc. because those things are against the law today.
25-year old gangbangers killing each other are “children,” don’t you know?
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