• rabber@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I think this is the year where I force myself to stop paying attention to current events and completely disconnect

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    6 months ago

    Muslims/IS; Blacks gang fight; (bomb in the back of the car, still investigating)

    No pattern here, move along.

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      6 months ago

      Wow. Stuff happens in places and when you consider all places, a lot of stuff will happen. Let’s look at all bad stuff from everywhere, even if we dont live there, and then overreact to them and act as if stuff didn’t previously happen and as if this is somehow shocking, new, or personally affecting thosenof us who don’t live remotely close to these events.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      There is actually more stuff than mentioned here.

      • A vehicle rammed a crowd, killing ten and injuring thirty.

      • A state judge shot himself in the face at the office on Monday.

      • FBI found a record number of homemade pipe bombs in Virginia.

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          That may be true based on stats which can always be manipulated. But it sure doesn’t feel safer. There was a time when you had no fear riding the subway. Now you are taking your life in your hands just standing on the platform

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            6 months ago

            Was that before or after Bernie Goetz decided to murder people and then he got away with it? Because I’m not sure everyone felt safer after that.

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            6 months ago

            NYC used to be much more dangerous. Really goes to show how mislead we can be by emotions that you feel it’s only dangeeous now

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              You are not old enough to remember how peaceful and clean the city was during the 16 years of Guiliani and Bloomberg

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                  6 months ago

                  “stop and frisk” was horrible. Just the thought of them removing all those illegal guns from the street. And then actually jailing those carrying those illegal guns. It was a horrible time in NYC

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                Hey cocksucker the crime rate now is lower than Jules ever got to in his drug addled terms. It’s lower than it was in 2010. It’s higher than De Blasio sure but Covid fucked up the status quo ante.

                Facts don’t care about your fucking feelings. Get the boot outta your mouth

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        Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it would be categorised or described differently. A mass shooting is a mass shooting, no matter how often it happens.

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        6 months ago

        This sounds more like gang shit

        A group of four men fired at least 30 gunshots into a crowd that gathered near the Amazura nightclub

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            I guess, the term mass shooting just makes me think of one dude going off the rails.

            The fact that we need subgenres for this shit is disgusting either way.

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              I still think your distinction is important. They are both tragedies of course, but it’s important to know and understand the cause.

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              The majority accepted is 4 or more injured or killed, not including the shooter (gun violence archive).

              The DOJ version is 4 or more killed, which is just the mass murder definition with a shooter, leaving out a lot of incidents.

              In either case though, the motive is irrelevant because its not going to be known at the time.

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                Interestingly, the DOJ version also causes mass killings that made minimal firearm involvement to be on the list.

                It’s why the 7th deadliest “school shooting” was in the mid-18th century, and only one person was actually shot, with the rest killed by melee weapons.

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              I would just refer to people who “go postal” as rampage killers. Spree killer and mass shooter already have their own definitions after all.

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            It’s important in the sense that if it’s “just gang shit” then people think it’s less random, and so they have some agency to avoid it, which makes it less scary. They’re also not in social groups even close to gangs, so it’s not something that would ever happen to them.

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    6 months ago

    First mass shooting in the US.

    Unfortunately Montenegro beat us to the punch this year with a mass shooting killing 10 earlier yesterday.

    • M137@lemmy.world
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      But anything outside the US doesn’t count, maybe even doesn’t exist, according to a majority of US citizens.
      It’s truly disturbing how common it is for 'Muricans to just forget and/or not care about anything outside the US. And even for things within the US, they forget timezones are a thing even though their own country has several.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    New Years RESOLUTIONS, RESOLUTIONS, not revolutions…

    On the second thought, continue.

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    6 months ago

    12am Happy new year! 1am Friend an hour back: Now it’s new years Me: well, I’ve been in 2025 an hour and it seems uneventful, probably a good sign

    I’m sorry for jinxing it, everyone