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Old 10-03-2017, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by CarlV View Post
The horrifying events in Las Vegas on Sunday night mark the 273rd mass shooting in the U.S. in the 275 days that have passed so far in 2017, according to Gun Violence Archive.
http://www.newsweek.com/mass-shootin...-day-us-675334
A mass shooting is defined by Gun Violence Archive as any incident in which "four or more [are] shot and/or killed in a single event, at the same general time and location not including the shooter."

That seems like a pretty expansive definition. A "mass shooting" is typically an event where the shooter lacks a primary target: any person within the shooter's line of sight is a target. It puts, for example, a gang - related attack in the same bucket as what happened in Vegas.

It also looks like they're including the terrorist attack in Orlando. I don't think I'd put that in the same bucket.
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