How many people need to be shot and killed in a news story

[tabasco]

for it not to be locked in LBN? Anybody know?

10, 20 ... 50?

[AAO]

1. at least 3 children or a combination of 12 men,women,children.

I used to work for NBC in NY.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. 4?

Generally, there are three terms you'll see to describe a perpetrator of this type of gun violence: mass murderer, spree killer, or serial killer. An FBI crime classification report from 2005 identifies an individual as a mass murderer if he kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), typically in a single location. (The baseline of four fatalities is key—more on that just below.)

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/what-is-a-mass-shooting

[tabasco]

10. Sounds legit.

Thanks!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I saw that locked thread and wondered the same thing

But after more thought I realize that they've got to draw the line somewhere. Unfortunately (I don't have the statistics at my fingers) I'll bet there are shootings like this across America every day and so it's not national news and becoming so commonplace it might not even garner much attention in the place where it occurred. What it takes for a story to rise to the level of bloody grotesqueness to become national news is something I'm not sure of.

[uppityperson]

4. Enough to be within SOP for the forum and like aint_no_life_nowhere said in previous post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1014
Statement of Purpose

Post the latest news from reputable mainstream news websites and blogs. Important news of national interest only. No analysis or opinion pieces. No duplicates. News stories must have been published within the last 12 hours. Use the published title of the story as the title of the discussion thread.

[edgineered]

5. So many answers -

If a white gun dealing conservative man driving a truck with the right 'anti this' and 'no more that' bumper stickers gets shot, by someone not as just described, then we need to look a bit lower on the chart.

Other than that the numbers are meaningless propaganda and don't belong in LBN. It looks like I missed another locked thread, having been gone for a week. SOS as always?

[WillyT]

6. The Sad Thing... Is Apparently It's Not "Breaking" News Anymore... Just Everyday America...

& Rec !!!

[randys1]

9. Think about the question and that it wasn't sarcastic, how pathetic are we....:-(

[WillyT]

12. I Did Not Take The Question As Sarcastic... And I Agree With You...

[randys1]

13. Exactly...and according to gun nuts, the problem is we dont have enough guns

[pintobean]

7. Don't know.

Guns and whining about DU should get a lock in GD. I say 'should' because - who knows anymore.

[ManiacJoe]

8. It is not about the numbers.

There needs to be something in the story that makes the crime something other than a "local crime story".

The number of shot people could do that.
Who the victim is could do that.
The fact that the story gets picked up by "national news sources" due to it being a slow news day will probably not qualify the story as LBN.

[BainsBane]

11. The horrile state of normal in America

of gun violence, and we must greet it with silence. It is a shame on all of us.