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For some context in case anyone is interested: the most recent prominent mass murder in Australia was indeed using a vehicle rather than a gun (6 people in Janu
by somecontext 9y ago
For some context in case anyone is interested: the most recent prominent mass murder in Australia was indeed using a vehicle rather than a gun (6 people in January 2017), but there have been mass shootings in the last 30 years as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia lists more than ten, and there is no particular reason to believe the list is complete.
The most recent prominent mass shooting appears to be the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis.
- jazoom 9y agoYou're right, and thank you for taking the time to add this extra context. This is why I said "big" mass shooting, even though that extra word seems redundant. It looks like only two people were killed in that Sydney hostage crisis and apparently that's enough to call it a "mass shooting".
- somecontext 9y agoYour parent comment used a definition of four people shot. If you use the number of people killed (excluding the perpetrator), then depending on how medical care goes, the YouTube shooting today might involve 0 deaths. Nonetheless, it reasonably appears to be considered a "mass shooting".
- jazoom 9y agoI know next to nothing about today's shooting and was not suggesting today's is a mass shooting. I hope, for the sake of all those involved, that it isn't.