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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on August 24, 2019, 09:05:56 PM

Title: Mass shooting?
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 24, 2019, 09:05:56 PM
I had not heard or read about this incident. I stumbled across this article by accident.

https://apnews.com/247e7b9a91a54d568fd3e27d133bca9d

So ... college campus, four people shot and injured. Apparently an argument between two groups of people.

Mass shooting, or not?
Title: Re: Mass shooting?
Post by: BobR on August 24, 2019, 10:25:32 PM
Nope, too many guns, not enough people by a single gunman, according the the FBI and others. For any Bloomberg group, yes.

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The United States’ Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition and defines a “public mass shooting” as an event where someone selects four or more people and kills them in an indiscriminate manner, echoing the FBI’s definition of the term "mass murder

bob