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Cont: Today's Mass Shooting (part 3)

23 mass shootings in January.

There was only one with double digit casualty numbers.

No suspect description. 10 wounded. Memorial. Queens, New York.
www.amny.com

Queens mass shooting injures 10, suspects at large

Queens mass shooting suspects remain at large; four gunmen injured 10 people near event hall in a targeted attack tied to gang-related tensions.
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This shooting occurred outside of a memorial service for 16-year-old Taearion Mungo who was a gang member killed earlier in the year.
All 10 victims were teenagers. CCTV footage shows that 4 masked gun persons opened fire on a crowd gathered outside. The masks they were wearing were not of the white pointy hooded type, but they were the type more commonly worn by those "greatly affected because of the limited access to gun control and [not] the expanded access to social safety programs to increase quality of life."
 
arthwollipot said:
I guess this doesn't count.
www.theguardian.com

Swedish police say 11 people dead in Örebro campus attack

Victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history
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Post in thread 'Eleven killed in school shooting in Sweden, one of them the lone perpetrator'

White nationalist!
Ropet innan skotten på skolan: ”Ni ska bort från Europa!” (TV4.se, Feb 5, 2025)
Motivet till dådet är ännu oklart.
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Before the shots fired in the school, he yelled: "Get out of Europe!"
The motive is still unclear.

No, it isn't!
It's not unlike what Breivik did on Utøya in 2011 - except that he killed the people he blamed for allowing immigrants into Norway.
 
Bogative said:
That depends.

Was the shooter one of those greatly affected because of the limited access to gun control?

Did they have expanded access to social safety programs to increase quality of life?
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Initial findings appear to suggest that the shooter was motivated by racist and anti-immigrant sentiments.

So yeah, this definitely counts.
 
Direct Exposure to Mass Shootings Among US Adults
JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(3):e250283. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0283

Results
Of the 10 000 respondents included in the analysis, 51.34% (95% CI, 50.27%-52.40%) were female. In terms of race and ethnicity, 3.04% (95% CI, 2.71%-3.38%) were Asian, 12.46% (95% CI, 11.81%-13.12%) were Black, 16.04% (95% CI, 15.10%-16.98%) were Hispanic, 62.78% (95% CI, 61.73%-63.84%) were White, and 5.67% (95% CI, 5.23%-6.11%) were other race or ethnicity. The findings indicated that 6.95% (95% CI, 6.39%-7.50%) of respondents were present at the scene of a mass shooting, and 2.18% (95% CI, 1.85%-2.50%) sustained physical injuries, such as being shot or trampled, during such incidents. A total of 54.89% of mass shootings to which respondents were exposed occurred in 2015 or more recently, and 76.15% took place in respondents’ local communities. Mass shootings were most likely to occur in neighborhoods. Younger individuals (eg, AOR for Baby Boomer and Silent generations vs Generation Z, 0.12; 95% CI, 0.09-0.18) and males (AOR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.29-1.85) were more likely to report exposure compared with those from older generations or female individuals, respectively. Black respondents reported higher rates of being present at mass shootings (AOR, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.49-2.34), while Asian respondents reported lower rates (AOR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.19-0.66), compared with White respondents, but there were no racial and ethnic differences in injuries sustained.
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bluesjnr said:
That, right there, is the problem. Me? I'm seeing nothing funny/hilarious in this thread...... at all. You do you.
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After a while, given the unwillingness of USAians to actually do anything to address the problem of mass, and other, shootings, people get emotionally fatigued and start to use black humour as a way to address their repeated exposure to such events.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.
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theonion.com

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded...
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catsmate said:
Actually most USAians want to prevent the endemic gun killings. However their elected representatives are less interested.
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But their representatives do their utmost to stop these terrible deaths: thoughts and prayers.

What more could they possibly do?
 
Steve said:
And who elects those representatives? Most USAians. The ones who (we are told) want to prevent the endemic gun killings.
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The squeaky wheel, and its money, gets the grease. That's the NRA. Note also that in order to win a seat you have to first win your party's nomination. Pretty much no Republican can win a nomination by being anything other than pro-gun, even if most constituents are otherwise.
 
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