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Mass shootings in the US: there have been 1624 in 1870 days
- zhengiszen 9y agoNurturing a culture based on violence and litterally exporting said violence since decades... Nurturing the drug traffic worldwide with all power available (see Afghanistan for heroin and Colombia for cocaine as illustrations).
- orionblastar 9y agoNot just that but nurturing that differences be settled by violence with one war after another, mass media showing how mass shooters get attention and they keep a high score list, and both parents or guardians too busy to raise their kids so the kids run in the streets and learn from gangs and criminals shown on the news as getting as famous as heroes. We are showing the worst of humanity and rewarding it with attention and fame.
- wahern 9y agoA comparison would be useful. For 2016 VICE tracked mass shootings in the U.S. and Europe (including Russia). Europe: 53 dead, 169 injured U.S.: 392 dead, 1,502 injured See https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4wb9p3/mass-shootings-in-europe-in-2016 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4wb9p3/mass-shootings-in-... and https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xdwpwk/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states-and-europe-in-2016 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xdwpwk/mass-shootings-in-...
- maxerickson 9y agoThe mass shooting thing is kind of arbitrary. In the same period there has been something like 60,000 firearm homicides. (so ~50x the deaths from homicides that don't fit into the mass shooting category)