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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
(tho a mall shooting basically means USA anyway)
There must be a hidden paragraph in this article because there isn't anything about gangs in this article but almost every comment here is mentioning it. >

It's really sad that my first thought was, "Didn't I read about this last week? I guess this was a different shooting". I'm at the point where I feel completely indifferent to this kind of stuff, because it happens all the time and I know that absolutely nothing will change. I don't even care if it was gang related or not, it all just blurs together to the point where it's meaningless to care. >

There was another shooting at Greenwood Mall (twice last year) which is on the south side of Indianapolis. 
This one was on the Northside. >

It seems so intellectually dishonest to classify gang violence and spree shooters as the same flrm.of mass shootings or active shooting. >

Why not active shooting? All active shooting means is that there's a dude with a gun and they are not in custody. >

The term has taken on a weird marketing glitz. "Their was an active shooter yesterday." Like, you mean he had a healthy lifestyle? Some of it's just natural language abuse but the term only has literal meaning in the present. >

It was coined as a term for news bulletins to warn people away when a shooting was ongoing, here on this site the news is so slow it doesn't mean anything.