| Aeolus451 said: They consider anything involving more than two people and a gun being involved as a mass shooting which includes accidental discharges, gang shootings, etc. I wouldn't be surprised they count defensive shootings involving more than two culprits as a mass shooting. It's a deceptive way to inflate the number and use word association to their benefit. |
You've not even looked at the incidents have you? Just the description of how they gather data and jumped to some kind of conclusion.
Every incident reported comes with a link to a related news article. How many linked articles did you actually read, before you read my previous sentence??
If you go to the news articles you can actually make an informed decision about whether the shootings involved "defensive" or "accidental" incidents. A quick sample of the first 20 shooting over the last 10 days (yes 2 per day) doesn't have 1 "defensive" or "accidental" shooting. So as a statistic that's 0% of what you suggested happened. But let's say that is too small a sample, if they do include that data, which I highly doubt, I'd be willing to bet it accounts for less that 1% of the 291 shootings listed there for this year. For those reading who don't have a calculator that is less that 3 of the 291 of them would involve "defensive" or "accidental" shootings, which means their figures are hardly inflated, as you falsely suggest.
