dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWe have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?message-squaremessage-square234fedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down121
arrow-up1304arrow-down1message-squareWe have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square234fedilink
minus-squareOccamsrazer@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoMass shootings weren’t even defined before. We didn’t talk about them because they weren’t tracked. Even now the definition of mass shooting isn’t settled, with some definitions having about a dozen per year, and others having about 2 per day.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoCan we factor in things counted as massacres rather than mass shootings?
Mass shootings weren’t even defined before. We didn’t talk about them because they weren’t tracked. Even now the definition of mass shooting isn’t settled, with some definitions having about a dozen per year, and others having about 2 per day.
Can we factor in things counted as massacres rather than mass shootings?