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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2f8crc wrote

Reply to comment by rebo9520 in MGM Resorts Sells Land That Was Site of Las Vegas Massacre by JPPT1974

TIL Pearl Harbor was a deadly mass shooting…

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rebo9520 t1_j2f8kyx wrote

I mean there were a lot of people shooting, the boats got bombed and strafed. I don’t see how it doesn’t fit the definition.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2f8t2c wrote

We call that a battle in a world war.. while you’re not technically wrong in a very literal sense, these are separate things being talked about.

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rebo9520 t1_j2f9gj7 wrote

The more that I think about it the more I think that Pearl Harbor and wounded knee are very similar. A surprise attack by a military of a nation just showed up and attacked another nation.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2f9k1j wrote

You’re trying way, way too hard for something that is entirely irrelevant to this situation. Go somewhere else.

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rebo9520 t1_j2fa2qu wrote

Lol at telling me to go somewhere else, your username is “askingandquestioning” obviously a misnomer.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2fajqo wrote

I questioned your logic, researched very briefly about the most fatal us military battle, confirmed Pearl Harbor wasn’t a deadly masa shooting, and answered your brilliant questions. Explain the misnomer to me? Quite the “nou”, my friend.

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rebo9520 t1_j2fay7m wrote

My friend, I am merely pointing out that calling wounded knee a “mass shooting” leads to every battle ever on us soil being a mass shooting. Therefor either wounded knee isn’t a mass shooting or if it is it isn’t the most deadly. Pearl Harbor is just a good comparison for wounded knee because it wasn’t a battle planned for by both sides and the countries weren’t at war yet.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2fbvzr wrote

Calling Wounded Knee a “battle” is where you’re mistaken. And while we weren’t “at-war” on paper with Japan before Pearl Harbor, we were funding the Allies (hence the attack). Saying we weren’t“in a war” before Pearl Harbor is like saying the Cold War wasn’t a war.

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rebo9520 t1_j2f8vqk wrote

Wasn’t a war yet, if 15 Japanese citizen came to America got ar-15s and starting shooting people in Times Square is that a battle in a war?

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2f9ecp wrote

Fine then, if you’d like to be pedantic the most deadly mass shooting, on American soil, is the Battle of Antietam.

Glad we covered that, on to: the relevant shit that actually matters, like the actual definition of mass shooting this title is referring to.

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rebo9520 t1_j2f9lyr wrote

Wounded knee being a mass shooting is just as pedantic as Pearl Harbor or Antietam. When people say mass shooting they are almost always referring to these lone wolf revenge fantasy fucks, not planned military actions whether they be war crimes or not.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2f9p50 wrote

Refer to my other comment, and be unnecessarily pedantic elsewhere.

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AskingAndQuestioning t1_j2fa4z8 wrote

You’re insufferably persistent aren’t you? I do not care what you think, Pearl Harbor is not what is referred to as a “mass shooting” have a nice day.

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rebo9520 t1_j2fagy4 wrote

You have besmirched me and I demand satisfaction

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