because it’s a statistical anomaly, it’s like including capital punishment in homicide numbers.
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TheDoozer@lemmy.world 3 months agoSo… I’m curious why you think gang shootings shouldn’t count or is a bit disingenuous to include.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It’s disingenuous because they’re not everywhere. They’re in a specific subset of high crime areas.
It’s a very own problem in its own right, but when including in a statistic used to represent all of America as shooting people up is what makes it a poor and often intentionally misleading statistic as compared to how safe you actually are in the average area
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
and it regularly involves a specific group of people, often times doesn’t really even involve every day normal people, as opposed to a mass shooting, where the literal point is killing normal people.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Exactly! We’re not having hundreds of random shootings in a given year, a very small subset are those crazy, heinous shootings where someone decides to hurt as many people as possible. Most of the incidents don’t make national news because they’re something like a drive by or similar.
We should absolutely fix the gang problems, but the solutions there are very different from the solutions for random mass shootings.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Nice dog whistle.
The virctims in gang violence include innocent bystanders.
We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Just because you read into it wrong doesn’t make your bullshit interpretation correct.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i mean it certainly can, but statistically, gang violence is going to be between gangs. Whether or that happens to be among specific racial, or ethnic groups is a different story entirely.
Of course there is also the question of gang violence hitting non violent members of the local community which may or may not be involved in that gang specifically, but that’s a different problem.
yeah, and it’s that specific communities, which tend to be correlative with racial/ethnic groups (you wouldn’t disagree with me on this one, judging by your comment acknowledging this fact) tend to have issues with discriminate, or indiscriminate violence between members of their community, for various reasons.
This is usually a phenomenon restricted to certain geographic areas though, it rarely makes it way outside of these areas, to places where “mass violence” is most commonly reported on. Because it’s not common.