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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
I can't access that NYT article anymore, but next time there's a mass shooting with 10 people shot and 'only' 1 or 2 dead I'm going to call it a mass shooting. Because that's what it is.
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That's fine, but the point is that it's not true, in that case, that those types of shootings are mostly carried out with legally acquired weapons. Even on the narrow definition - 4 or more people shot in the same event - there are a bunch of drive-by shootings in urban environments that qualify and are lumped in with things like Uvalde, despite the fact that those two crimes have very little in common and, therefore, would involve different changes in policy to address.
It's really not up for debate among anyone seriously discussing these issues that gun violence problems in the USA are complicated and varied. A lot of them stem from there just being "lots of guns", but gun culture in the USA is also a significant factor, which is why people always note rates of ownership in places like Norway and Finland. And that might actually be a more effective avenue than trying to solve the "lots of guns" problem, considering how many are already in circulation.
Either way, there aren't any easy solutions but there are lots of creative regulatory and legislative levers you could try to pull that could have a positive effect in terms of reducing the rate of gun killings, or there would be if there wasn't intractable political opposition to ever doing anything about it in any circumstances from a certain segment of the population.