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1. hedora+1H[view] [source] 2023-08-07 04:02:21
>>fortra+(OP)
> By 2018, there were only 12 known serial killers and 44 victims, according to the report

Ok, I’m calling bullshit. There were 27 mass shooting events with >= 4 dead in the US in 2018:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...

(I used 4 dead as the cutoff, since it is close to the mean in the article’s data set.)

If you count people that managed to shoot at least 4 others, then there were 323 attempted serial murders, “resulting in 387 deaths and 1,283 injuries, for a total of 1,670 victims.”

The article may as well be titled “Serial murders can mow be performed in under an hour, thanks to improved technology”

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2. agency+6J[view] [source] 2023-08-07 04:18:39
>>hedora+1H
I'm as horrified as you are by the rate of mass shootings in the US but this is a basic misunderstanding of terminology on your part. Criminology distinguishes between mass killings (single event), spree killings (multiple separate killings rapidly with no "cooling off" period between them), and serial killings
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