My estimate is those violence figures would show a strong correlation with the poverty rate, far more than with any axis of 'liberal' or 'conservative'..
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werentWhat I heard is that "school shooting" is defined as any shooting within 1000 feet of a school. Including drug dealers shooting at each two blocks away at 3 AM. Have to get those numbers up when you have an agenda to push.
Here is a pretty good explanation of "mass shootings".
https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/oct/04/mass-shooting-what-does-it-mean/
According to the FBI, the term “mass murder” has been defined generally as a multiple homicide
incident in which four or more victims are murdered, within one event, and in one or more
locations in close geographical proximity. Based on this definition, for the purposes of this report,
“mass shooting” is defined as a multiple homicide incident in which four or more victims are
murdered with firearms, within one event, and in one or more locations in close proximity.
Similarly, a “mass public shooting” is defined to mean a multiple homicide incident in which four
or more victims are murdered with firearms, within one event, in at least one or more public
locations, such as, a workplace, school, restaurant, house of worship, neighborhood, or other
public setting.
The 2000 figure for mass shootings since Sandy Hook (Dec 2012) is pretty close. There were 339 mass shootings in 2018. In 2019 there have been 261 mass shootings:
What I find interesting is the “we’ve got to do something” coverage.
Yes, the "since sandy hook, we have let 2,*** mass shootings happen".
That is what really kind of irks me. Who is "we"? We didnt do anything. These were all crimes committed by individuals so why are "we" responsible.
That's what makes these stats look dicked up. While they may satisfy the current definition of mass shooting, there is definitely an attempt to mislead in the context that it is presented.
Stems from this way of thinking.What I find interesting is the “we’ve got to do something” coverage.
No one wants to talk about Gang violence because they don't wanna seem racist. But this is 2019.
The Truth is racist but remains the truth.
That's what makes these stats look dicked up. While they may satisfy the current definition of mass shooting, there is definitely an attempt to mislead in the context that it is presented.
You're pretty much on with this. My mother ran the Medicaid Screening clinic at the local Health Dept for 10 years, these were her patients. We had a conversation about life in the ghetto while I was policing there. Kids all over are essentially the same, they want the toys and status symbols, but like Andy Griffith said they might not "look too hard to see if there's a hook in it." Its not surprising that many of them go chasing after these things be doing illegal things. There are some we can reach, and straighten out before something happens that ruins their lives. Too many times, its too late.Having managed a pawn shop in Liberty City in Miami for about 5 years I evolved a theory about why kids are attracted to the bad side in poverty areas. Any honest person making any money in a poor neighborhood is probably salting every penny away to be able to move to a better neighborhood. Kids don't grasp this, really. The only people having fancy cars and jewelry in such a neighborhood is someone doing bad things. The kids want the usual things kids want and the parents are looking at their income as zero disposable dollars, it's all going into the buy a house fund.
This is, of course, not 100% of the bad kids, lots come from broken homes.
Could be off base, but those guys dealing drugs and flashing money and guns look pretty attractive to a lot of impressionable kids.
I think you might have missed the point of my post.