Comment on Anon is a statistic

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  specific group of people

  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.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.

    Just because you read into it wrong doesn’t make your bullshit interpretation correct.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      doesn’t really even involve every day normal people

      You used those additional qualifiers. You’re just back peddling. You’re clearly indicating it’s not a big deal because it’s not people like you who are affected.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        statistically, someone who goes outside, unless they go into a shitty part of town, where this kind of violence is more common, isn’t going to be exposed to it.

        It’s like claiming that because we bombed japan in ww2, that the US population has radiation sickness.

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      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That was someone else who said that buddy

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The virctims in gang violence include innocent bystanders.

    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.

    We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.

    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.

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