• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    a record since the Gun Violence Archive began tracking data in 2014.

    Not to downplay the situation, but they’ve only been keeping track for a decade.

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      1 year ago

      But look, how the numbers are rising since 2014 - if it would go the same pace in the other direction, it would mean no mass shootings before around 2008?

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      Edit: my thinking was crappy…

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      That’s a billion percent increase from the time I started paying attention until now! Grants plz