McDonald's 🦈🐬🐟🐧@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoU.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidentswww.forbes.comexternal-linkmessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down130
arrow-up1527arrow-down1external-linkU.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidentswww.forbes.comMcDonald's 🦈🐬🐟🐧@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square189fedilink
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down9·6 months ago a record since the Gun Violence Archive began tracking data in 2014. Not to downplay the situation, but they’ve only been keeping track for a decade.
minus-squarekamenLady.@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoBut look, how the numbers are rising since 2014 - if it would go the same pace in the other direction, it would mean no mass shootings before around 2008? Status Edit: my thinking was crappy…
minus-squarethat guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·6 months agoThat’s a billion percent increase from the time I started paying attention until now! Grants plz
Not to downplay the situation, but they’ve only been keeping track for a decade.
But look, how the numbers are rising since 2014 - if it would go the same pace in the other direction, it would mean no mass shootings before around 2008?Status
Edit: my thinking was crappy…
That’s a billion percent increase from the time I started paying attention until now! Grants plz