One person died and 21 others were wounded at a city Super Bowl victory rally Wednesday and three people are in custody, Kansas City officials said, after gunfire shattered a joyous afternoon as a massive crowd celebrated the Chiefs latest NFL title.
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    71·
    7 months ago

    Some 75 people have been killed and 140 have been injured in the 44 mass shootings from Jan. 1 to Feb. 12, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which considers a mass shooting an incident in which at least four people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/02/13/us-mass-shootings-hit-3-year-low-for-first-six-weeks-of-2024-but-deaths-remain-high/?sh=2af2256b209d

    But don’t worry. Mass shootings stans will go, “Well askually it’s not a mass shooting because…” So the number depends on if the person

      • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Of course those count as shootings, just not mass shootings. There have always been too many shootings to count - especially in the 90s, mainly due to the war on drugs. There has been an uptick in “mass shootings” in recent years, mainly because we didn’t differentiate them from “shootings” until relatively recently…

        • GooseFinger@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 months ago

          I mean, “mass shooting” used to colloquially mean a random act against the public. I feel like people still think it means that when they see stats like this, but practically all the shootings in this stat are from gang violence and organized crime. A drive-by is a mass shooting.

          Not to downplay the severity of it, but I hope people aren’t thinking that there have been ~45 Kroger type shootings this year already. Solutions that address crime like this are different than addressing sick, politically motivated domestic terrorists. Not to say we don’t need a lot of both, though.