First mass shooting in the US.
Unfortunately Montenegro beat us to the punch this year with a mass shooting killing 10 earlier yesterday.
What the fuck, Montenegro, get your own thing. Something related to chain smoking probably.
Proposition to call lung cancer, Montenegrin cancer
But anything outside the US doesn’t count, maybe even doesn’t exist, according to a majority of US citizens.
It’s truly disturbing how common it is for 'Muricans to just forget and/or not care about anything outside the US. And even for things within the US, they forget timezones are a thing even though their own country has several.
I’m just happy they’re finally acknowledging that domestic terrorism is a thing, even if its just to avoid looking hypocritical because of Luigi Mangione
Finally? Didn’t Homeland Security or the FBI come out in the mid 2000s to warn that the most serious terror threat would be the domestic one?
And that they would be mostly right-wing folks, which has generally been true, in part because the bush administration deprioritized going after them.
There’s a scene in Justified and similar in some other shows in the years after 9/11. Marshalls are looking for help on some homegrown organized crime types and the FBI tell them “sorry boys if it ain’t about turbans or bombs in the sand we don’t have the money or time.”
We just sorta never stopped that after 20 years occupying and bombing the wrong country and now we have a goddamn nazi infestation again
yeah, because Timothy McVeigh.
I think this is the year where I force myself to stop paying attention to current events and completely disconnect
Do it, it’s amazing
Humans aren’t evolved for information overload like this. It rots our brain
You know when you ignore things in life too long and they just start becoming chaos?
America!
Wait what’s happened in New York?
10 shot outside of a club in queens, ages 16-20
This sounds more like gang shit
A group of four men fired at least 30 gunshots into a crowd that gathered near the Amazura nightclub
It doesnt matter the reason, its still a mass shooting.
I guess, the term mass shooting just makes me think of one dude going off the rails.
The fact that we need subgenres for this shit is disgusting either way.
I still think your distinction is important. They are both tragedies of course, but it’s important to know and understand the cause.
The majority accepted is 4 or more injured or killed, not including the shooter (gun violence archive).
The DOJ version is 4 or more killed, which is just the mass murder definition with a shooter, leaving out a lot of incidents.
In either case though, the motive is irrelevant because its not going to be known at the time.
Interestingly, the DOJ version also causes mass killings that made minimal firearm involvement to be on the list.
It’s why the 7th deadliest “school shooting” was in the mid-18th century, and only one person was actually shot, with the rest killed by melee weapons.
I would just refer to people who “go postal” as rampage killers. Spree killer and mass shooter already have their own definitions after all.
It’s important in the sense that if it’s “just gang shit” then people think it’s less random, and so they have some agency to avoid it, which makes it less scary. They’re also not in social groups even close to gangs, so it’s not something that would ever happen to them.
It doesnt make a difference for the definition of a mass shooting (really any of them, there are multiple definitions).
'Merica!
We’ve normalized mass shootings.
Mass shooting? Sounds like a normal Wednesday.
NYC has the lowest crime rate of any US major city by a lot.
That may be true based on stats which can always be manipulated. But it sure doesn’t feel safer. There was a time when you had no fear riding the subway. Now you are taking your life in your hands just standing on the platform
NYC used to be much more dangerous. Really goes to show how mislead we can be by emotions that you feel it’s only dangeeous now
You are not old enough to remember how peaceful and clean the city was during the 16 years of Guiliani and Bloomberg
Oh, yes. The “stop and frisk” era.
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Was that before or after Bernie Goetz decided to murder people and then he got away with it? Because I’m not sure everyone felt safer after that.
Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it would be categorised or described differently. A mass shooting is a mass shooting, no matter how often it happens.
New Years RESOLUTIONS, RESOLUTIONS, not revolutions…
On the second thought, continue.
Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions. - Pratchett
I tell ya, what we need is the luggage…
I’ll put all my trust in the luggage.
1-2-3-4-5
2025 any%
Are the Americans ok?
someone in this world bought a balloon and went driving to find a dead animal for that image._.
you think they went driving to find a dead animal?
cute…
Someone has to be driving to make roadkill. It just makes sense to drive up your own roadkill, if you’re looking for some.
And left their car parked in the photo.
ಠ╭╮ಠ
Naw man, we’re pretty fucking far from ok
Well, time to grab some blowtorches and get medieval on someone
Nope
Hahahahah. No.
No
Bro we’re straight up not having a good time.
NSFW
Don’t catch you slippin’ now
12am Happy new year! 1am Friend an hour back: Now it’s new years Me: well, I’ve been in 2025 an hour and it seems uneventful, probably a good sign
I’m sorry for jinxing it, everyone
Oh boy! 2 days in and 3 things happened already!
There is actually more stuff than mentioned here.
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A vehicle rammed a crowd, killing ten and injuring thirty.
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A state judge shot himself in the face at the office on Monday.
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FBI found a record number of homemade pipe bombs in Virginia.
- Thats in the meme
- 2024
- 2024
- pretty sure you are talking about the terrorist attack in New Orleans? 15 dead now
- that was 2024
- damn
This attack in New Orleans feels really bad for me as a French person because it reminds me of that attack we had in 2016 where a truck killed 86 people on our national day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack
I can’t help to think your terrorist attack was somehow inspired from that 2016 terrible terrorist attack.
Why, that’s not nice at all! That’s terrible!
spoiler
(Yes, I know it’s the city name.)
I think this specific one was inspired by the one in Germany in December. But that one was probably inspired by Nice.
You call those bullet points? Ha! Bullet bricks, more like.
EDIT: i guess they are identical on mobile, TIL
I have to think a bullet brick would be much more painful than a bullet point. I’m also curious if it would be more of a cannon than a gun, and thus safer to have in the hands of ‘the people’ because it wouldn’t really be a thing you could carry around on a whim. Would people put it in those little red wagons and walk it like a dog in a movie montage?
Alright, but the antipersonnel Bricks can’t be solid material due to the Geneva Convention, so we’re going to need Full Metal Brick Jackets.
damn
That one was also 2024.
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Wow. Stuff happens in places and when you consider all places, a lot of stuff will happen. Let’s look at all bad stuff from everywhere, even if we dont live there, and then overreact to them and act as if stuff didn’t previously happen and as if this is somehow shocking, new, or personally affecting thosenof us who don’t live remotely close to these events.
Well, they clearly are not important enough because they are not American 🇺🇸 🦅 🔫
series name is Community btw. great series i watched when it was just out
So… Just another day in America?
Third world country things
What’s wrong with cybertruck on fire? I thought it was nice and symbolic.
Maybe because it injured 7 people?
I mean that’s obviously why he did it, but it was still a car bomb, not a malfunction.
so does that make all teslas car bombs now?
wait that actually happened?? I thought it was just a symbolic painting…
dude died in it.
yeah, it was real.
dang that sucks. RIP 🥲
He got shot in the head too
Wait. I thought it just got caught fire because it’s a Tesla. What else happened?
he shot himself in the head immediately prior to the explosion, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Hotel_Las_Vegas_Tesla_Cybertruck_explosion
Wow. Did he own it? Or rent it? Seems to be a lot to unpack here.
I’d reccomend having a read of the Wikipedia article. It has the answers you’re looking for. 😁
