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...
There is no question that mass shootings are happening more frequently. The question is are they happening to often? They have become more common, but have always been a problem in the world. Shootings have been happening since the invention of guns, but as we come closer to our era mass...
As of September 2024, California had the most mass shootings in the United States, with 26 total shootings since 1982. The source defines a mass shooting as a shooting where three or more people were killed. Recently, a mass shooting occurred in the state of Maine on October 26, 2023, du...
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two students at Columbine High School inLittleton, Colorado, carried out an attack that became thearchetypeforschool shootingsaround the world. The names and images of the killers wereubiquitousin the media, and in the 20 years following Columbine, more than three ...
The majority of school mass shooters in their database died at the scene, nearly all by suicide－the lone exception being the Robb Elementary shooter, who was shot dead by police.This year, there have already been more than 246 mass shootings in the US, according to Gun Violence archive.Mo...
Prior research focusing on mass shootings in the US has established the significant role of weapons in these events. Despite the extensive literature on the topic, minimal consideration has been given to the specific muzzle energy and caliber of ammunition used in these events and whether these ...
Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from Mass Shootings in United States (2018-2022)
A note that the data on shootingtracker.com will now comply with the standard Gun Violence Archive methodology on how mass shootings are counted. Gun Violence Archive has always used the FBI derived definition: FOUR or more shot and/or killed in a single event [incident], at the same genera...
The article Shootings by Adam Gopnik depicts the correlation between mass murders and media to be a social gathering in which citizens from all around the world bandwagon onto debates to form “crusades”. Adam emphasises that media sources only shine light upon topics of gun violence and mass ...
CNN reports mass shootings based on data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun violence in the United States. CNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as onethat injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter. The number of mass shootings and...