Mr. Sims, the county executive, said he had been urging black residents to concentrate on race issues like disparity in school testing rather than using shootings as rallying cries.
The most satisfying moments come from out-thinking the enemy rather than out-shooting them, and there's enough content here to keep you engaged for a very long time.
Studies done at police departments have shown that officers trained with flash sighting rather than point-shooting take about one-tenth of a second longer for the first shot, but land about four times as many good hits on target.
Some critics of the military say the commanders might have done this because it would be easier at some point to prove a downward trend in violence if one looked only at victims killed in shootings, rather than victims killed in shootings and bombings.
It's certainly a serious crime," says James Alan Fox, an expert on mass shootings at Northeastern University who remains a bit dubious about referring to these events as "mass shootings" rather than something like "large-scale shootings" to avoid confusion with the old, narrower definition.
Rather than — white in shape?
Philip Cook, an emeritus professor at Duke University and one of the America's small number of career gun policy researchers, questioned why the researchers had focused on such a small subset of public shootings, rather than the broader category of mass shootings, which, by some definitions, occur in the US as often as once per day.
In the past, some conservatives have slammed Democrats for seeking to limit the sale of guns after mass shootings rather than exploring perceived causes, like media violence.
Most of these plots only got to the stage of talking (often with disguised federal agents) before the authorities broke them up, but some went further than that, and a few — all shootings rather than bombings — led to fatalities.
