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Originally Posted by Warfish
I would caution against hype and hysteria regarding "influence". We're a very big country, with alot of guns, not alot of quality mental healthcare....an environment ripe for such events.
I would also caution against making more of one event, no matter how media-grabbing or tragic, and making more of it than it is. For example, as bad as a lone mask-wearing gunman who kills a dozen people may sound, it pales in comparison to the day to day drone of gun deaths and homicides in our country.
For example:
49 people shot, in one routine weekend, in our nations 2nd biggest City. 10 dead.
Gun violence is commonplace, sadly. I wouldn't give a lunatic like Holmes credit for something inherantly American, killing our fellow Americans with guns.
Condolences to the officer and victim in this event. Such tragedy is far too common.
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But those are primarily individual events, granted primarily in a particular section of the city (Southside or Westside)..
The CO and AZ are mass shootings occurring in a "traditional" safe environment (a mall, a movie theater, a school).