NBC: Timeline of mass shootings in America by active duty military and veterans
NBC has a timeline of veterans and active duty soldiers committing mass shootings in America.
A timeline of mass shootings carried out by veterans and active duty soldiers over the last two decades https://t.co/OY3X8OMJLA pic.twitter.com/wlJUxGswlU
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 7, 2017
Let’s get the obvious point out of the way: no, NBC New York has never made a timeline listing every mass shooting carried out by those who follow a certain ideology. When people of those ideology commit those shootings, we are buffeted with assurances that is is wrong and immoral to stigmatize millions based on the actions of a few. That courtesy evidently does not extend to our men in uniform.
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The clear impression a reader would get is that serving in the military somehow causes one to carry out a mass shooting (I guess they’re going for PTSD?). There’s actually a lively debate on whether there’s a correlation between the two, but there’s nothing academic or nuanced about a listicle. Missing from a timeline is the fact that correlation does not imply causation: for one thing, mass shooters are nearly all men, and 24% of U.S. men are veterans.
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