At some point in the recent past “they” started a different way of counting “mass shootings”. It used to be more than X amount of people killed/injured by a targeting killer iirc.
Now it is 4 people killed in any type of shooting in the same area or in nearby areas. So a drug deal gone bad, gang-bangers, etc.
Other articles say 4 people “shot” - but the congressional research service states it as 4 people dead. (I’m guessing these idiot reporters figure that shot is the same as dead.)
When you change the definition of mass shootings, you can make the stats say whatever you want. Democrat politicians think we’re all as stupid as their voters are.
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/mass-shootings.html
Excerpts:
“Depending on which data source is referenced, there were somewhere between six and 503 mass shootings and between 60 and 628 mass shooting fatalities in 2019.”
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“The U.S. government has never defined mass shooting as a separate category of crime, and there is not yet a broadly accepted definition of the term. In the 1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defined mass murderer as someone who “kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), typically in a single location”
In 2013, Congress defined mass killing as a single incident that leaves three or more people dead (Pub. L. 112-265, 2013). However, both definitions include many incidents that would not be considered mass shootings. Furthermore, neither definition was established for the purpose of data collection or statistical analyses....
Thus, various news outlets, researchers, and law enforcement agencies often use different definitions when reporting on mass shootings, which can complicate our understanding of mass shooting trends and their relationship to gun policy.”
4 people shot at a “mass shooting” is just a typical daily funeral for a gangbanger in Chicongo.