# A pitting for Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi

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**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791 "2021-07-19T01:39:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/311 "2022-05-25T18:32:45Z")

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I’m getting more and more confused with every reply of his. He has no interest in mass shootings. But he does track mass killings. How does he think most mass killings come about?

> [@Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/219):
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> > [@Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/76):
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> > I didn’t realize you are the “mass shooting guy” on this board.
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> I am not. I have no interest in mass shootings. I track spree killings. (That is to say killings of four or more people in a single emotional event by a single killer in a single emotional event.) It is possible to shift through a list of mass killings and get all the mass school or other shootings that result in more than four deaths, but that is not my interest.
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> But mass school shootings would (I suppose) be those were four or more people were hit (not killed) in a school in session. They are very rare events.
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> It is simply sad that in our modern America we have as many names for killings as the Inuit (supposedly) have for snow.

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