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Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by dabeeeenster »

m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

"The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case."

That's exactly the case. Just because numbers are going down doesn't make it any less of an epidemic.

"people are approaching the topic emotionally rather than rationally and proposing extreme reactions"

Suggesting people don't own assault rifles is not an "extreme reaction".

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by Density »

kevinh wrote: post #17
Density wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most hackers here either work for Google or really wish they could. Any opinion voicing opposition to Google will get mercilessly flagged and downvoted.

It's disingenuous to say that you're voicing opposition when you were saying that the shooting was staged.

Gallows humor, sorry.

I hate Google.

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by spondyl »

bpchaps wrote: post #11

The where's Waldo April fool's joke makes it a little surreal: https://imgur.com/a/DoQEl (Pardon the phone screenshot)

I had a similar feeling when it was reported that the injured were transported to Zuckerberg General Hospital[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_General_Hospital

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by ericmcer »

m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

Do you think this is a coordinated, planned effort by the media, or an organic event? Did they decide they wanted to convince the public that shootings are suddenly a much bigger issue, or did shootings start to be great selling news so now they seek them out aggressively.

It kind of reminds me of the late 90's and early 2000's when all of a sudden kids getting abducted became huge news. That forever changed the way adults could interact with strange kids, and how parents viewed unknown adults.

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by ryanx435 »

just_testing wrote: post #15
m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

This is one of those statistics where there are only two distinct values that matter: - Zero shootings - Too many shootings Any number bigger than zero is too much and we should do our best as a society to decrease it to zero.

Anything more than zero shootings is too much? What a ridiculous assertion.

What about deaths from car accidents?

What about deaths from hammer?

Choking on your toothbrush?

Jaywalking?

Infections resulting from not washing hands?

Carbon monoxide?

Your absolutism is dishonest and unhelpful.

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by wavefunction »

m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

I suppose we can kill the hysteria driving mass gun ownership then! I'm sure the NRA will be happy to turn down the hyperbolic rhetoric about how you could be double rape-murdered at any given second now that these results on violent crime have come out and we can all breath easier.

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by johnny313 »

m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

> Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down.

This is not supported by other analyses that look at the issue. FiveThirtyEight looked at several measures of school shootings / mass shootings and came to the opposite conclusion. [0]

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measu...

Re: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

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Post by dragonwriter »

just_testing wrote: post #15
m52go wrote: post #13

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to real…

This is one of those statistics where there are only two distinct values that matter: - Zero shootings - Too many shootings Any number bigger than zero is too much and we should do our best as a society to decrease it to zero.

Stabbing everyone to death would reduce shootings to zero.

Probably not a good policy, even so.

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