This also doesn’t paint the whole picture.

The term mass shooting is being used for a broader range of incidents, whereas before it typically referred to a lone gunman shooting innocents, now every drive by or gang turf war is getting the label.

This is purposefully conflating multiple types of violence to befuddle folks into thinking there’s a terrorist attack on children every weekend.

This muddies the water, successfully so, for the gun control movement to gain momentum and advocate for things like assault weapon bans, which are typically used in historical mass shootings, but are rarely ever used in the majority of the “4 or more” definition of mass shooting.

Problem here is that if you don’t separate and properly label the incidents, you can’t address the problem.

As an example, what would an assault weapon ban do for gang related deaths when most of those happen with hand guns? What if instead we decriminalized or legalized the drugs that typically drive the violence?

These conversations can’t happen if everything is a “mass shooting”, and that’s the point.