{"id":2066,"date":"2013-09-17T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2013-09-17T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:44:40","slug":"mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/09\/17\/mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timeline of Mass Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/26315908\/#53028318\" target=\"_blank\">Last night on TRMS<\/a>, Rachel Maddow tried to put yesterday&#8217;s events in historical perspective by timelining major U.S. shootings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/09\/us_mass_shootings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2067\" alt=\"us_mass_shootings\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/09\/us_mass_shootings.png\" width=\"668\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/09\/us_mass_shootings.png 668w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/09\/us_mass_shootings-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I call attention to this here for two reasons. Firstly, if this timeline is <em>accurate<\/em> it should be disturbing, because\u00a0it seems the\u00a0mean time between major mass shootings is trending steeply downward. Secondly, if <em>inaccurate<\/em> (or otherwise misleading) it should be critisized as such.<\/p>\n<p>Tim and Shane, that&#8217;s your cue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on TRMS, Rachel Maddow tried to put yesterday&#8217;s events in historical perspective by timelining major U.S. shootings: I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}