Talk:Mass shooting
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Poor source given in Sex and Race section[edit]
Regarding this paragraph: "A study by Statista showed that 65 out of 116 (56%) U.S. mass shootings in a period from 1982 to 2019 involved "white" shooters,[55] roughly in line with the roughly 60% of the U.S. population regarded as white in 2018.[56] According to a database compiled by Mother Jones magazine, the race of the shooters is approximately proportionate to the overall U.S. population, although Asians are overrepresented and Latinos underrepresented.[52]"
Statista is a very poor source. All information is hidden behind a paywall. Additionally, it seems to be pretty obvious that the source Statista uses is the Mother Jones database referred to in the very next sentence of this paragraph. That is because Statista has 121 incidents, where Mother Jones also has 121. Mind you, the 121 figure is not some published agreed upon number but one Mother Jones has selected based on certain criteria. Therefore this paragraph appears to be pulling from multiple sources, but is in fact the same source.
Removal of perpetrators section[edit]
@Love of Corey: There was no edit summary given for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mass_shooting&curid=31883778&diff=1041527226&oldid=1039773372 Any particular reason for the removal? - Scarpy (talk) 05:49, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Scarpy: I guess it is because Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and the perpetrators section is only meant to give the characteristics of mass shooters, rather than giving a list (List of rampage killers already does the job of giving a list of mass shooters pretty well). And unnecessary mentions of the names of mass shooters can cause contagion.--RekishiEJ (talk) 17:30, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
This sentence appears to contradict itself to a casual reader[edit]
"The Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 defines mass killings as three or more killings in a single incident, however the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 does not define mass shootings"
It took me three readings ... and for the third reading I copied the entire sentence into a text editor, placing the second half of the sentence directly below the first half before I noticed there is in fact no contradiction.
The difference is "killings" vs. "shootings".
It is a long sentence, and there are twenty-three words between "killings" and "shootings". By the time I got to the end of the sentence the subtlety was lost on me. -bobB (talk) 00:31, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Agreed, whoever wrote that seems to think the reader should understand why "shooting" needs to be specified, but since anyone killed in a shooting is also a killing, everything after the comma seems vague and unnecessary. I think it can be dropped. 24.251.236.40 (talk) 21:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- I removed it, however if the point was just to clarify that it's not specifically about shootings (the article's scope) then I would suggest changing it to something like "The IAVCA does not specifically define mass shootings, but defines mass killings as...". 24.251.236.40 (talk) 21:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: English 102[edit]
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