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Right, in most people's minds a "mass shooting" or a "school shooting" means a targeted terrorist-style attack, not an interpersonal or gang dispute that escalated into gunfire and had multiple injuries. Pretty much all counts of mass/school shootings in the US are inflated in this way, possibly to make it sound worse for political purposes.

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Yeah, I watched the story ran about it last night, and I was honestly astonished at the validity of assertions which were made, maybe it's my youth but I cannot imagine this explicit choice of misnomers and mischaracterizations to capture peoples eyeballs would've flown a couple decades ago.

Couldn’t yesterday’s event be finagled as workplace violence?

Maybe. Schools are workplaces. The suspect was 18, according to CNN (first link on Google) so I think it was a student. Anyway, it could be (probably is) both. They’re not mutually exclusive categories.

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