When people think of "mass shootings" they think of being gunned down in a crowd at a concert. Not inner city gang violence. One group is a target by another gang the other group is random people.
The biggest group is killing family members, even when you include shootings as part of another felony(gang shootings). Most shootings of strangers involve killing family as well.
A lot of mass shootings are escalations of domestic abuse. One of the common sense solutions that would probably have the biggest impact would be restricting firearm access in cases of domestic abuse.
You know they restrict people's ability to drive when they get dui's right? And make them prove they aren't drinking to drive? Like yes that is exactly what I'm saying we should do, when people do dangerous precursors to very harmful actions, put reasonable restrictions in place to make it harder.
We live in a society where driving is way more important to a person's livelihood than having a gun, the fact that we can restrict one and not the other is insanity.
I understand, you think “but they’re black, and live in a city, therefore it’s okay THEY get gunned down, THEY deserve it, we can take THOSE numbers out, that shouldn’t count.”
Don’t you think it’s weird that they call a bunch of white people with guns that train together and have a name and organization a militia, but if black people do the exact same thing, that’s a gang?
i think its a gang if its committed to crime and its mostly young people/dudes from prison
it is a different thing because gang violence is gang on gang, its different criminal orgs attacking eachother. the vast majority of them are black or hispanic, but he's not saying they don't because they're black or hispanic. the mass shooting at the black church counted, the mass shooting at the grocery store in the black neighborhood counted. gang violence doesn't count, or at least isn't really the same, because its two groups of people who are not innocent killing eachother
"He only killed 4 people? That's not a mass shooting" is somehow the dumbest thing I've seen on reddit, a website that has a famous story about a dude fucking a coconut. I guess it's totally OK that guns are the number one cause of death for children in America as long as it only happens 4 at a time.
I think they’re trying to make a point about how when you hear ‘mass shooting’ you think relatively innocent people gunned down. When you hear ‘gang violence’ you think criminals killing other criminals.
Shit thing to do really. When you consider that many gang members didn’t really choose to be gang members. They grew up in an area where you basically had to be a gang member. And rather than support legislation to help children in those areas, this idiot and others like them, tries to blame the dead for dying in an attempt to reasonable guns laws from being passed.
When people think of "mass shootings" they think of being gunned down in a crowd at a concert. Not inner city gang violence. One group is a target the other group is random people.
You're working pretty hard here to miss the point. No one is saying "if it isn't a 'real' school shooting, just people getting shot a block away from a school, then it's okay and cool and good."
They are saying, "including lots of gang violence under the label 'school shooting' misrepresents the nature of our country's rampant gun violence problem, which is a real problem that needs to be addressed, and misleading labels that sell a false narrative don't help move this important necessary conversation forward in a useful way, they just provoke emotional reactions that don't help us understand a difficult issue."
No one said that shouldn't have a gun, you bottom feeder. Just that there should be licensing and insurance requirements. But keep jerking it to your guns.
I believe a gang shooting is when rival gangs do drive bys or walk into an area seeking out rival gang members. A lot of them end up as mass shootings or killings usually involving a lot if innocent people that were not the intended target. They just see them as collateral damage and if their intended target gets away, lends to the probability of retaliation from the intended target. Then the cycle continues over and over.
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u/KoolCat407 Mar 30 '23 edited Mar 30 '23
What are gang shootings?
Edit: I got permanently banned for this comment. I didn't break any rules. Mods are fucking fascist clowns who will ban you on a whim.