For me it was only 2 out of at least 3, if I count “hear about” as being more than a casual mention (I wanted the title to be shorter but I actually mean looking up as in reading an article about, to find who / what / why / etc.), and if I ignore the cache of explosives found in Virginia.
For context, the three that I mean were: the driver in New Orleans, the truck explosion in Las Vegas, and the shooting in New York. (Edit: people are saying that the last one is not strictly speaking related to terrorism, at least that we know of. A better title for this post would have been “violent” rather than “terrorist” events.)
Damn, we sure live in “interesting” times! 🙄
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I heard about the incidents in New Orleans & Las Vegas indirectly, having seen posts about them on Lemmy.
Lemmy can be a great source of news:-).
I don’t see any indication that the NYC shooting was a terror attack. It reads like the all too common street shooting over petty bullshit, although my assessment could change if the story builds.
Regarding the other two, while both vehicles having been rented through the same company is suspect, I’m definitely in a wait and see point. Sometimes coincidences are just that.
The shooting in NYC sounds like gang-related violence. Supposedly a drive-by shooting at a memorial for a kid that was killed a few months earlier. Everyone has been pretty explicit that it’s “not linked to terrorism.”
Domestic or otherwise, I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic by calling all those events terrorism. Is there a violence problem, sure, a rash of terrorism, I don’t think so. There’s only one event with a clear link to terrorism.
I edited the OP to acknowledge my poor choice of title.
what got me was the one in montenegro to one https://moist.catsweat.com/m/world@lemmy.world/t/726900/Twelve-people-including-two-children-killed-in-Montenegro-shootings
There seems to be a lot of unrest going on globally. And these weapons are so extremely capable. I don’t even want to walk around with the equivalent of root access in my pocket, and I routinely remove user-write access to my files that I desire to preserve as a backup. So why carry guns somewhere that you know that you plan to get smashed-out drunk at? That just seems highly irresponsible to me.
Though the 3 that I mentioned (or possibly just 2 of them?) seemed more intentional, where someone had to prepare the incendiary explosive devices in advance prior to deployment. And if anything, that just might be worse. But yeah, they are fucked up either way.
4, if we’re including the guy with enough explosives to take out several small countries.
The BBC rss feed I’m subscribed to is pretty high volume, but it’s also very thorough.
Why subject yourself to that?
…the news in general, rss feeds, or the BBC?
High volume news feed
Holy shit. I only heard about the one in New Orleans.
Mass violence sincerely scares me. I work at a big chain that’s seen enough shootings that I feel like my location is bound to have one eventually. We already got a violent suicide, nowhere near the same thing but it definitely doesn’t help those feelings, being so close to something so awful.
The US version of the Reign of Terror has begun.
