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Under the current definition things can literally be a mass shooting when a particular family is targeted or when the shooting is committed because of and in the course of a completely different crime. This is as opposed to the ones yesterday and today that were just literally random public shootings.
I did not say that the ones this weekend did not meet the definition. Only that the numbers are much larger than the should be based on the very broad current definition of four victims that were either injured or killed without taking into account the facts that surround the case. Such as was it in the course of another crime? Were particular PEOPLE not groups but people targeted.
to apply to only random shootings like the ones this weekend ( as opposed to the current definition used by most sources which is a shooting with at least four injuries or deaths whether or not it was in the course of committing another crime or a case where a person killed a whole family.
Do those non-random as you say (though the ones you describe as random aren't really random though since they appear to be planned) not matter then?
no not that they do not matter, but whether that the number of people that would be saved by tightening gun laws to "regulate" mass shootings ( because you are not going to stop them) are really fairly small.
I actually was not around to read or really hear about that shooting as I had no access to TV or computer from last Sunday afternoon to this Friday afternoon.
