We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015
Aug. 26 is the 238th day of the year. And with the fatal shooting in Virginia today — in which a gunman shot himself after killing two reporters and wounding one more person — plus the shooting of four during a Minneapolis home invasion, the number of mass shooting incidents has risen to 247 for the year.
These numbers are compiled by the moderators of the GunsAreCool subreddit, a sarcastically named community that tracks gun violence in America. They define "mass shooting" as any single incident in which at least four people are shot, including the gunman. The tracker comes in for some criticism because its definition is broader than the FBI's definition, which requires three or more people to be killed by gunfire. But the broader definition is nonetheless a useful one, because it captures many high-profile instances of violence — like the recent Lafayette theater shootings — that don't meet the FBI's criteria.
Some gun rights advocates — like John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center — object that the broader definition includes a lot of gang killings and domestic disputes that the average person wouldn't necessarily consider a "mass shooting." But there's an uncomfortable assumption here that some crime victims' lives should be valued differently — or are less worthy of attention — than others.
A more expansive definition of "mass shooting" underscores the extent to which firearms make it relatively easy to hurt large numbers of people in a very short time. With a gun, you're able to inflict bodily harm on a person once they're in your line of sight. With something like a knife or your hands, you need to get right up close to a person.
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if the NRA decides to do a Shooting Per Day in the U.S.A. calendar how do they choose? So many variables: white vs. black shooter; white vs. black victims; a few victims vs. multiple; sane vs. insane ([sic] of course they're all insane); handguns vs. semiautomatics.... 
You know everybody wants to adopt the American way of life so what gives? Shouldn't Americans be teaching everybody how to lock and load? Especially those sissy countries that have stupid anti-gun laws? What's wrong with them?
... that the U.S. needs a new cable channel: THE MASS SHOOTING CHANNEL (or TMSC).
TMSC would feature the following regular segments:
1. "The Scope: A Focus on Today's Mass Shooting"
2. "Behind the Trigger: Shooter Profiles"
3. "Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Victim Profiles"
4. "Tactical Talk: A Look at Guns and Ammo"
5. "Duck and Cover: How to Avoid Getting Shot"
These five segments would rotate throughout the hour, interspersed with messages from Wayne LaPierre reminding viewers that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" and for advertisements from gun manufacturers, gun ranges, gun shows, and gun shops. Since we're averaging one mass shooting a day, you'd never run out of material.
I'm sure there'd be a lot of money in it.
Emmy material! Got my DVR ready! 
