Mass shooting, as defined by the U.S. FBI, an event in which one or more individuals are ‘actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm.’
Statistics Mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2024, by state U.S. mass shootings 1982-2024, by prior signs of shooter's mental health issues Number of victims of mass shootings in western democratic countries as of 2012 Factors to blame for mass shootings in the US 2013 U.S. public opinio...
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Twelve were cases of family violence. While these may fit the technical definitions of a spree killing and mass shooting offered above, they don’t fit the active shooter definition. The overlap just underscores how hard it is to understand exactly what is happening from broad statistics. The A...
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logistic regression, examined factors were the shooter’s race/ethnicity, the region in the United States in which a shooting occurred, whether a shooting was school related, fatalities, handgun use, long gun use, automatic or semiautomatic gun use, media coverage level, and state political ...
The 43-year-old shooter — a former Scout leader who had been removed from the program for questionable behavior — strapped on four guns and entered the Dunblane Primary School gym. He began shooting at children and teachers, some at point-blank range, killing over a dozen before putting ...
Bear in mind the simple fact thatwell over half(88 out of 153) of mass shooters die on the scene of the atrocities they cause. Whether the shooter dies by his own hand or his death manifests as a “police-assisted suicide” doesn’t matter. The point is these guys have to be at ...
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The Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit based in Washington, DC and which CNN relies on for its reporting of mass shootings, defines a mass shooting as an incident leaving at least four people dead or injured, excluding the shooter, and does not differentiate victims based upon the circumstance...