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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by davemp on Sunday December 31, 2017 @04:06AM (#16039922)
The data appear to be correct. Maybe you’ve ingested to much propaganda to believe these numbers.

I’m always skeptical of statistics about highly politicized issues as the interpretations and sampling can be very irresponsible/biased.

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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by ryanlol on Sunday December 31, 2017 @09:39AM (#16040707)
The data is for a really arbitrary timespan, why 2000-2014?

It’s clearly missing data, Finland for example had more than two mass shootings during those years.

The numbers look bad because they are bad, they may however be bad for different reasons than I originally suggested.

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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by davemp on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:50AM (#16040973)
It’s old I think.

I might try to dig up some more recent stuff.

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