Woman Killed in Savannah in Yet Another Mass Shooting Today

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The San Bernardino mass shooting wasn’t the only mass shooting today. Four people were shot in Savannah, Georgia, early this morning, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Detectives believe at least two shooters were involved and have not yet publicly identified a motive in the shooting, according to the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.

The victims are three men—Jamond Heyward, Jarrett Myers, and Jeran Washington—and one woman. The woman, Brandy Council, died from her wounds. The other victims have non-life-threatening injuries.

As pointed out by the Washington Post, shootings of this magnitude barely even register nowadays:

The local news media barely acknowledged the murder: One local television station covered it in three paragraphs.

And the world spun on.

This is how you wind up recording more than one mass shooting per day over the course of a year.

http://gawker.com/woman-killed-in-savannah-in-yet-another-mass-shooting-t-1745852693

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1. I am speechless

This is insanity.

[Photographer]

2. This is a sad statement on America today.

We'd rather protect guns than lives.

[brer cat]

14. It is sad

also disheartening. Welcome to DU, Photographer.

[jwirr]

3. Local newspaper years ago used to be famous for reporting

every little bit of gossip they heard. Long lists of who visited grandma this weekend. Then as people moved from small communities to larger cities it was every single crime that was ever committed and move along to all the murders.

Today we are now doing the same thing with domestic and foreign terrorists.

And you are right the world spun on.

[Jarqui]

4. Mass Shootings Frequency

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7. The *huge* problem with that graphic is it ignores a large amount of mass shootings in the 80s & 90s

Because it excludes shootings based on "interpersonal/group conflict" or "the commission of another crime". So, five kids standing on a street corner in Southeast DC get shot, and that doesn't make this list.

[niyad]

9. forgot the san ysidro mcdonald's massacre

San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1992 botched robbery, see Sydney River McDonald's murders.
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
Map of California highlighting San Diego County.svg
Location of San Diego
Location San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States
Date July 18, 1984
c. 3:59 p.m. – 5:17 p.m. (PST)
Attack type
Mass shooting, mass murder
Weapons

9mm Browning HP semi-automatic pistol
Uzi 9mm semi-automatic carbine
Winchester 1200 pump-action shotgun (12 gauge)

Deaths 22 (including perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
19
Perpetrator James Huberty

Coordinates: 32.55590°N 117.05417°W

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Diego neighborhood of San Ysidro on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others, before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.[1]

The shooting remained the deadliest mass murder committed in America until the 1991 Luby's shooting,[1] and remains the deadliest shooting rampage in which the perpetrator was killed by police as opposed to suicide.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre

[TwilightGardener]

5. Depressing as hell.

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6. If the victim's name had been Trevor rather than Jamond it would have gotten picked up

Sadly this isn't even remotely new; there were all kinds of shootings of lots of kids in schools in the 1990s, but it wasn't until suburban white kids started getting shot (in the context of much, much lower school violence overall) that the media frenzy started.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Barely worth mentioning these days.

At some point, a dozen people dead will barely register.

[niyad]

10. and, after all, it was ONLY a woman.

[2naSalit]

11. beat me to it!

[SheilaT]

12. Hey everyone, this is just another day in the Land of the Free.

Every day about thirty people die from guns. No big deal.

Of course, if every single such death were covered in the national media, maybe people would finally get it.

Some time ago the Kansas City Star decided to profile every single person who died in a car accident in a particular month. It was eye opening. You learned something about the lives of very ordinary people who had the misfortune to die that way. I forget the total numbers, but it was about one person a day.

Some years back there were a series of public service things on TV. You'd see a home video of a kid, or a family, and then it would say: Killed by a drunk driver and give the date. I usually cried at those, because you'd see some adorable child, or a dad connecting with his son, and then have the fact of their senseless death shoved in your face. Because these were public service announcements, they aired at odd times, so not many people saw them. But they humanized the senseless deaths.

So here's what I propose: a series of PSAs, showing video of ordinary people, then say when they were gunned down. Couple that with front page articles for a month about the people killed by guns -- and let's include the suicides -- with a bio, the circumstances, and show the grieving family. Make it real.

[valerief]

13. Holy shit! Not even a blip on this. nt

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16. That's the scary part. n/t

[niyad]

15. . . .

[RiverLover]

17. This won't make national headlines either, but a 3 yr old in Ohio was shot in the stomach today.

The wound is possibly self-inflicted.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/12/03/columbus-ohio-police-3-year-old-shot-in-the-stomach-in-east-columbus.html