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Hugh_Lebowski

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6. In part it's because 'only' 1 person died ...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:22 AM
Oct 2021

It's also in part because it's in a bar, and there's a tendency for people to think that when shootings happen in bars, it's due to some existing conflict between people there.

The 'mass shootings' that really make the news tend to be the ones that seem more random, where some nutter just up and decides he (it's nearly always a he) wants to create carnage ... OR ones where there is an element of racism, sexism (or sex), or there are children involved.

Sad fact is there's so many that only the one's that make for an 'interesting story' in some sense end up covered by the national news.

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