US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders
US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders
The USA proving it’s still number 1…. At murders?
We did it! Good job everyone.
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YEAH!!! AMERICA NUMBER ONE BABY!!!!! UNDEFEATED!!!!!!!
Yeah, counting only fatal shootings as "mass shootings" is strange. A gunshot wound can easily be a life-altering injury, and this should be reflected in the statistics.
Yeah bankruptcy is life altering lol
Yeah, this is a horseshit article. They chose to define a mass shooting as an incident where 4 or more people are killed (excluding the shooter) rather than where 4 or more people are shot as they do in your gunviolencearchive.org link. Gunviolencearchive.org current;y has 25 incidents per page and is now onto page 26! It lists 631 mass shootings this year! This is day 338 of 2023 so that is 1.9 mass shootings per day! And it's not even an exhaustive list. It doesn't yet include, for example, the two mass killings listed in OP's article.
Not a shock knowing the shootings in USA. No politician wants to change these gun issues so this will continue.
Excuse me, NO politician? Not Lucy McBath (D-Ga) who literally ran on gun control to flip her seat after her 17 yo son was shot to death by a white man over a noise complaint? Not "yes I will take your guns" Beto ORourke? Not literally-survived-being-shot -in-the-face Gabby Giffords?
You completely undermine these anti-gun politicians & the work they do when you deny they even exist.
No politician wants to change these gun issues so this will continue.
Because they know that to try would be political suicide. So much of the US population fetishizes gun ownership and makes it a corner stone of their personality that it is basically impossible to change.
I don't think it's even because of that. About 70% of Americans support measures like psychiatric evaluations or waiting periods, maybe even more. NRA is also not that powerful as a lobbyist, most politicians would be fine without it's support. The only issue is that it would require some actual work and they wouldn't gain anything from it and American politicians simply aren't used to doing anything useful anymore.
BS, there are plenty of federal politicians who promote gun control, and there are even more state politicians who support it, as evidenced by the 3 states (CO, WA, MD) who passed gun control measures in 2023 alone .
When you say "no one's doing this & never will", you're completely undermine the people who literally are doing this right now.
Will, you see they need their guns and they can't possibly have any coherent gun laws because of an old piece of paper written hundreds of years ago. It all makes perfect sense and isn't in any way stupid at all.
The law was made back when war was conducted by everyone standing in a field and shooting in the approximate direction of the opposing force, and eventually hitting someone. Just maybe the constitution is out of date now? Just a radical thought.
It has nothing to do with guns... amirite?
If that were true, there would be no reason for Iran not to have nuclear weapons right.
It's people who kill after all. The weapons have nothing to do with it.
Workd record holder for another year.
Is there a record for how many consecutive years a country had held this record?
Thats what freedom looks like you primitive commies!
Freedom isn't free. You want to live with your face under a boot that's fine. You don't get to choose for the rest of us.
They are counting the stabbing in NY as a mass shooting?
The article uses the term “mass killing”, so no.
Right, but. In the article they state
"A series of murders over the weekend have propelled the United States to a grisly new record: the most recorded mass shootings in a year"
Including the stabbing which they then refer to as a mass killing. I'm not arguing the point of the article. Its just misleading.
No, it's listed in the article as a mass killing, not shooting.
Another attack occurred on Sunday in New York City, when a 38-year-old man stabbed four of his relatives – including two children – as well as another woman and two police officers before they shot him. That was the country’s 41st mass killing of 2023
