None of these are mass shootings as most Americans would understand the term. Two of them don't even fit under the expanded activist-created definition most major media use these days. Sensationalizing shootings to try and make everything akin to Columbine just misleads people.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1391207559382454276
There's no official standard for what a "mass shooting" actually is but the term was clearly derived from the FBI definition of "mass murder" which involves the killing of 4 or more people in a short period of time. That was what the media generally went by until recently.
In 2015, a group of gun-control activists on Reddit decided they wanted to expand the definition to 4 or more injured in a shooting. That drastically increased the count of "mass shootings" from 21 to 355 that year. freebeacon.com/issues/media-p…
The reality is most mass murders committed with a gun are not what most people would think of as mass shootings either since they aren't attacks carried out at random in public. Most are people killing their family. It's incredibly disturbing but different from public attacks.
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