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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was at an upscale outlet mall by the way.[/quote]

Is the implication that we should only expect this to be normalized in poor areas?

On top of the tragedy itself, this is yet another affliction to the poorer working class who work in public-facing retail jobs. They must increasingly live in fear every day and second-guess their safety as they head to work. Meanwhile we WFH and have cushy high-security office buildings.[/quote]

I suspect the point is that this area was targeted to impact a certain community and demographic. The shooter didn’t live there.

3 kids were shot in DC in the last day, and it doesn’t make national news.

A shooting at a school or public space in an affluent community makes national/international news and the murderer lives in infamy forever.

Plus: the average Joe lives in fear of school and public space shootings but doesn’t really worry about the daily crime in inner city areas they never go near. [/quote]

You need to have about 7-8 killed to make the news for now. I think that has changed with the Brownsville terrorist. Very little coverage of that. I think the number of killed will have to be about 10-12 to get national coverage. This happened in Houston this weekend. Yet conservatives only hype crime in a few “liberal” cities.

[quote] It's kind of scary': Shootings across Houston leave 7 teens shot, 2 fatally over the weekend.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It was a violent weekend with shootings involving teenagers in the Houston area. [b]Seven teens were shot in separate shootings, two of which were deadly, in the span of just 24 hours.[/b]

Surveillance footage from a nearby home shows the aftermath of one of the deadly shootings on Majesticbrook Drive. Teens are seen frantically running from what was supposed to be a high school prom after-party. The party, with roughly 100 teens, turned deadly as it went into the early hours of Saturday morning.

[b]A 16-year-old boy got into a fight with the father of a girl at the party, and both the teen and father took out guns and started firing at each other,[/b] according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The 16-year-old died. The father, who claims self-defense, was not charged, and the case will now go to a grand jury, according to deputies.[/quote]

https://abc13.com/teenage-crime-shootings-houston-teens-shot/13222079/[/quote]

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