• barelythere@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Questioner: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

    Charlie: “Counting or not counting gang violence”

    Charlie then gets shot in the neck.

    His literal last moment is him deflecting the question to a right wing dog whistle

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      17 hours ago

      How is that a deflection? Excluding gang violence from mass shootings would change the number dramatically. So how could he give an accurate answer without knowing?

      The definition of “mass shooting” varies and can potentially exclude gang violence. Excluding gang violence is often useful since most people don’t care about criminals killing each other (which is most of gang shootings), and prefer to talking about innocent people who are shot.