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DickTick 142 points ago +144 / -2

They were still happening.... anyone can look up the numbers for each year

The difference is that they only shine a spotlight on them and call attention to each and every single one whenever they have a clear agenda they need to push through

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FinalFantasyNerd 8 points ago +8 / -0

Lol, they weren't happening, there basically are no "mass shootings", the media counts a mass shooting as any shooting where 3 or more people were shot, and 99% of those incidents are gang bangers shooting other gang bangers.

There are almost no instances where someone just randomly goes and shoots strangers.

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supermagafragilistic 8 points ago +8 / -0

For as much as Mother Jones sucks, I do like their definition of mass shootings and they do a good job of tracking them with sources. I was bored at work a few years back and opened up every single source news article for every single mass shooting they had listed for a particular year, it was probably around 2015 or so. I created a spreadsheet where I tracked the shooter's name and once the list was compiled I accounted each shooter's race/ethnicity. Something like 85% of the shooter's were black and the victims were around the same. The vast majority of the remaining 15% were hispanic with only a few of the shooter's being white. Blacks overwhelmingly make up the majority of mass shooters and it doesn't all happen in Chicago and LA. It's rampant in the south, right along the nation's black belt if you will, people being shit indiscriminately on a nightly basis.

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probablyacoincidence 3 points ago +3 / -0

Any way you can post that? I think that's great info to have out there.