Mass shootings in the United States This is a partial list of mass shootings in the United States. Of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, half took place in Texas. University of Texas clock tower shooting (August 1, 1966) Charles Whitman, a former U.S. Marine who had dis...
As of September 4, there were two mass shootings in the United States in 2024. This is compared to one mass shooting in 1982, one in 2000, and 12 mass shootings in 2022 and 2023. School shootings The United States sees the most school shootings in the world. Some motivations for schoo...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says Muhammad Shahzeb Khan attempted to travel from Canada, where he lives, to New York City with the goal of slaughtering as many Jewish people as possible in the name of ISIS. NEW YORK - A man has been arrested in Canada in connection with a plot...
While mass shootings in the U.S. killed an average of 55 to 230 people every year in roughly the past decade - depending on how they are defined - the number of all gun assault victims is much higher, having averagedaround 14,500 annuallyover the same time period. In 2020, they even ...
The inquiry offered pointed criticism of the Mounties’ response to the shootings. Its final report found the RCMP missed warning signs about the killer, including reports of domestic violence, possession of illegal firearms and repeated run-ins with the law. Among other things, it found the Moun...
Nov 1, 2024 02:00 2 dead, 6 wounded in shootings in downtown Orlando Eight people were shot, two fatally, into a crowd celebrating Halloween in downtown Orlando early Friday and a suspect was in custody, authorities said. Nov 4, 2024 Maine marking one year since worst mass shooting...
Text “HOME” to 741741 in the U.S. and Canada to reach the Crisis Text Line. Are mass shootings becoming more deadly and more common? Yes, mass shootings have been getting more deadly over the decades. James Densley and Jillian Peterson, who run the Violence Project and have studied ...
Many mass shootings are motivated by revenge or envy. That's why many take place at a school or a workplace where shooters felt rejected, said Tony Farrenkopf, a forensic psychologist in Portland, Ore., who has created psychological profiles of mass shooters. In addition, killers often exhibi...
Of course, as other wealthy countries have shown, mass shootings are not something we just have to roll over and “accept.” As The New Yorker’s John Cassidy wrote just after Uvalde, Australia, Britain, and Canada all enacted major gun restrictions in the wake of such horrific occurrences,...
Police Arrest 1 of 2 in Austin Mass Shooting That Wounded 14 More The Associated Press This photo provided by Austin Police Department shows Chief Chacon providing an update on overnight shootings in Austin, Texas, early Saturday, June 12, 2021. Chacon says gunfire erupted in a busy ente...