• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Oh, I didn’t say it’s not scary, I’m saying a group of angry people, fueled by alcohol, shooting at each other is an ENTIRELY different class of crime from some psycho intentionally hunting people, and they shouldn’t be grouped together.

    In the case of a bar/club fight, nobody went down there intending to shoot somebody. It worked out that way, but that wasn’t the intent.

    Totally different from, say, the Pulse Nightclub shooting where carnage was the driving purpose.

    • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      I get your point about motive, but I’d argue it’s only relevant depending on your argument. If the argument is “we need gun control and government buy-backs to reduce gun violence through the availability of firearms” then using mass shooting statistics as defined by the gun violence archive is relevant. If the argument is “we need better mental health facilities to prevent people enacting public mass violence intentionally” your perspective is relevant.

      Honestly thought, I would argue the US is so far down the hole any measure is better than nothing. Either fix gun ownership, the insane number of guns on the market, the mental health crisis, or any of these at once and you’ll see improvements. Anything but “thoughts and prayers”.