08-07-2019, 05:19 PM
(08-07-2019, 04:27 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-cb-mass-shootings-language-definition-gun-violence-20190805-dv2g5lcumbeq3gji4dnycx7j74-story.html
Every group has their own definition of "mass shooting" and criteria in order to qualify as such. People pick and choose which group's numbers to used based off of what message they are trying to send.
Some used people shot, some used people killed, some don't include the shooter as a person killed in order to qualify, some don't include gang violence, some don't include shootings in a domestic setting.
The article makes a crazy point of the two extremes. One group has it listed as 225 mass shootings so far in 2019, another has that number at 7.
So it's basically a pointless task to bother discussing numbers as everyone will be using different sources that give different results.
The criteria most often used, because it severely inflates the numbers, is a shooting in which four or more people are injured or killed. Of course, this criteria doesn't distinguish between how the injuries occurred, so if I'm running from a shooting and fall and break my ankle, that counts. Ironically, this criteria is a bit of a narrative killer as under it a significant majority of such shootings are committed by black men.
