Lafiel said:
whataboutism is a fallacy there already were 133 mass shootings (4+ shot) in the US in 2016 http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=5 and I'm certain >90% of them wouldn't have happened if there was a different gun culture in the US |
The methodology of the website you linked is wanting. For starters, notice how that many of said "mass shootings" don't even have multiple (or any) deaths.
Which matters more, the number of shootings or the number of actual dealths in these mass-shooting events? Notice in the European attacks the death-counts are quite astronomical for just a single attack. It shows to me that either the police can't respond quickly enough, or the shooter(s) has/have no fear of others taking action against him. In the U.S these attacks may or may not be considerably more frequent (depending on methodology and how we account for population size and diversity) but they usually are much less lethal because the attacker knows that there is much less time to enact his plan. About 500 people, including attackers, died of "mass shootings" last year in the U.S. That is .00015% of the population. Hardly a worrying pandemic. The mass shooting argument is weak. People have better argument when it comes to regular shootings or suicides.
It doesn't help that the website is also quite biased and intentionally does this. It was created and maintained specifically by and for the website slate.com with an obvious confirmation bias.
