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...
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...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and five others were injured in on-campus shootings at Michigan State University (MSU) Monday night, with the suspect found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. According to MSU spokesperson Emily Guerrant, the first ...
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...
º A complete ban on “assault weapons” will save very few lives: Six out of every 10 mass public shootings are carried out by handguns alone, while only one in 10 is committed with a rifle alone. º The average age of mass public shooters is 34, which means that increasing the ...
I just checked; I’ve written 36 mass murder posts over the last 12 years. Thirty-six. And just to be clear, I’m talking about mass murders — not mass shooting events. Mass shootings are basically unsuccessful mass murders. They’re attempted mass murders, and they’re a lot more com...
The same is true of the mass shooting claims. I’ve seen Twitter users claim that there have been as many as199 mass shootings in 2023 to date, which works out to more than one per day. If that sounds high, again, it’s because it is. AnAssociated Press/Northeastern Universitytracker...
Terrorist threats have become an unfortunate reality, as shown by the bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and the targeting of nontraditional mass gatherings, such as the Madrid train bombings in 2004, the Kenyan shopping mall mass shootings in 2013, and the...
After a series of deadly police shootings in which officers killed teenagers they believed were armed with real weapons, cities began banning them. Entertech tried to manufacture less realistic water guns, but the company was purchased by Acclaim Entertainment in 1990 and began phasing out toy ...
Mass shootings have been occurring more frequently in recent years, an FBI study shows, with nearly one incident a month from 2000 to 2013.