Country has had 38 mass shootings – in which at least 203 people have died – so far this year, passing previous high of 36
    • farcaster@lemmy.world
      26·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, counting only fatal shootings as “mass shootings” is strange. A gunshot wound can easily be a life-altering injury, and this should be reflected in the statistics.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is a horseshit article. They chose to define a mass shooting as an incident where 4 or more people are killed (excluding the shooter) rather than where 4 or more people are shot as they do in your gunviolencearchive.org link. Gunviolencearchive.org current;y has 25 incidents per page and is now onto page 26! It lists 631 mass shootings this year! This is day 338 of 2023 so that is 1.9 mass shootings per day! And it’s not even an exhaustive list. It doesn’t yet include, for example, the two mass killings listed in OP’s article.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Workd record holder for another year.

    Is there a record for how many consecutive years a country had held this record?

      • DagonPie@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Right, but. In the article they state

        “A series of murders over the weekend have propelled the United States to a grisly new record: the most recorded mass shootings in a year”

        Including the stabbing which they then refer to as a mass killing. I’m not arguing the point of the article. Its just misleading.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Two attacks on Sunday occurring within a couple of hours of each other in Texas and Washington state were the year’s 37th and 38th mass shootings.

          The stabbing is separate and unrelated.

        • squiblet@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          It’s slightly confusing but is explained in the article that all mass shooting are mass killings but not all mass killings are shootings, which of course makes sense.

        • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Nope, there are 38 mass shootings which are a record for mass shootings. Additionally the guardian mentions mass stabbings, usually a pro-gun argument.

          The WP article linked in the Guardian article mentions 38 mass shootings and has no reference to stabbings. In the infographic for every incident it mentions a shooter specifically, not a perpetrator or attacker.

          Your comment is misleading, not the article.

          • DagonPie@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Why would I be talking about the washington post article? Im talking about the stabbing mentioned in the article of this thread.

            • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Because it’s linked as a source in the article when the shootings are mentioned.

              But indeed it is clear even from just the Guardian article that the 37th and 38th mass shootings of this year broke the record of 36 mass shootings. All this before any stabbing or overall mass killing is mentioned.

              None of the articles are misleading, your comments are, I guess purposely.

              • DagonPie@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                Correct. The whole purpose of my comments were to mislead you. Specifically. I hope you have a good rest of your day even though you suffered from my comments.

                • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Nowhere did I insinuate you were trying to mislead me specifically. That’s also misleading.

                  Have a good night.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      No, it’s listed in the article as a mass killing, not shooting.

      Another attack occurred on Sunday in New York City, when a 38-year-old man stabbed four of his relatives – including two children – as well as another woman and two police officers before they shot him. That was the country’s 41st mass killing of 2023