What constitues a Mass Shooting?
4 people dead after a shooting in a Hair Salon earlier this week? I never saw anything about it on the national news, but I am curious as to why/what makes it into the national media cycle and what does not...Why does one grab national attention, and the other does not?
Here's the story, if anyone is interested..
911 Calls on Casselberry shooting rampage..
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-casselberry-shooting-three-dead-20121018,0,2272873.story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219750/Gunman-shoots-dead-women-wounds-ex-girlfriend-inside-Florida-hair-salon-committing-suicide.html
A man shot dead three women inside a hair salon, including one who was five months pregnant, before turning the gun on himself on Thursday, police said.
Investigators say the gunman, 36-year-old Bradford Baumet, opened fire at 11am in the Casselton Corners plaza shopping mall in Casselberry, Florida.
Seminole County Fire Rescue officials report three people died and one was injured inside Las Dominicanas M & M Hair Salon.
Baumet’s ex-girlfriend Marcia Santiago, 44, who managed the salon was shot five times, according to her ex-husband, William Ayala, who spoke to her sister.
Ayala said he had a daughter with Santiago and the girl lived with him.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219750/Gunman-shoots-dead-women-wounds-ex-girlfriend-inside-Florida-hair-salon-committing-suicide.html#ixzz29xQnoCXM
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It doesn't make any sense at all, but there does seem to be a ranking of some kind - whether it is body count or location or age/race/socio-economic status or something else.
Location and socio-economic status appear to make a big difference. Sort of a 3/5ths clause for determining the worth of a life. 
