Posted on Feb 14, 2023
3 people killed at Michigan State University; gunman dead
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A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away after an hours-long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark.
Police announced the man’s death early Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and later nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study.
“This truly has been a nightmare we’re living tonight,” said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department.
Police announced the man’s death early Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and later nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study.
“This truly has been a nightmare we’re living tonight,” said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department.
3 people killed at Michigan State University; gunman dead
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When they said 'shootings' I thought there was a gun battle." Seeing there was only one shooter I decided to dig deeper. There is no doubt this was a Mass Shooting but it also says in the source article "More than 600" mass shootings in 2022. That surprised me so I dug even deeper till I found the link to their online document labeled "GENERAL METHODOLOGY". These are some extracts pertaining to my questions. I am also posting the link to this page herein so you can read it yourself.
"GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we don’t exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident. The FBI does not define Mass Shooting in any form."
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GVA's reason for not use the FBI definition?
I quote, "The FBI does not have a definition of Mass Shooting. They have a definition of Mass Murder which is four or more KILLED. It includes gun violence, bombings or any other incident where four or more are killed. Mass Murder would statistically be a subset of Mass Shooting."
In other words, every killing regardless of circumstances, weapons, gang-killing, justified, protective home invasion, self defense. If a teenager girl defended herself and her two siblings with a frying pan. If the three were all injured and the attacker who was carrying a gun he fired was put into the hospital - GVA added all four to their 'Mass Shooting' database...
In my opinion, GVA can't argue about your self-defense response to violent attackers so they are attempting to change the definition of Mass Murder by manipulating the statistics.
Source ~ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology
"GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we don’t exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident. The FBI does not define Mass Shooting in any form."
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GVA's reason for not use the FBI definition?
I quote, "The FBI does not have a definition of Mass Shooting. They have a definition of Mass Murder which is four or more KILLED. It includes gun violence, bombings or any other incident where four or more are killed. Mass Murder would statistically be a subset of Mass Shooting."
In other words, every killing regardless of circumstances, weapons, gang-killing, justified, protective home invasion, self defense. If a teenager girl defended herself and her two siblings with a frying pan. If the three were all injured and the attacker who was carrying a gun he fired was put into the hospital - GVA added all four to their 'Mass Shooting' database...
In my opinion, GVA can't argue about your self-defense response to violent attackers so they are attempting to change the definition of Mass Murder by manipulating the statistics.
Source ~ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology
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Mental Health is a thing. This is a preventable situation, and it's not gun control. People's mental health, and the lack of institutions to treat mental illness keeps people on the streets who shouldn't be. Not being diagnosed will allow you to purchase a fire arm, and enablers who won't report illness should be held as accountable as those who pull the trigger.
Just my 2 cents.
Just my 2 cents.
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