The report found that in the 1970s, the U.S. experienced an average of 1.1 mass public shootings per year, a figure that rose steadily over the ensuing decades before reaching a high of 4.5 from 2010 to 2013. Statistics on mass shootings in America have been a source ofintensedispute. W...
Between 2018 and 2023, at least one person was killed or injured in more than 200 school shooting incidents in the U.S., resulting in more than 500 total victims and an average rate of more than 2 victims per incident. Kentucky, Iowa and Florida experienced the highest rates of victims ...
Since the start of the New Year, in just 45 days, there have been 78 mass shootings across the United States, or an average of 1.7 per day, leaving 129 dead and 294 wounded. Figures also showed that the number of mass shootings across the country has been rising sharply, from 339 in ...
Now the US has by far the highest number of privately owned guns in the world. Estimated for 2017, the number of civilian-owned firearms in the US was 120.5 guns per 100 residents, meaning there were more privately owned firearms than people. On November 24, 2020, the Statista Research De...
Guns are deeply ingrained in U.S. society and the nation's political debates. With nearly 400 million guns in civilian hands -- the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens, the United States is also an outlier among wealthy, developed countries in terms of gun issues. ...
but many of them have. An example of a mass shooter who was domestically violent is Omar Mateen. He was the perpetrator of the anti-LGBTQ mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. After the event, his ex-wife told the media that he had violently abused her during their...
While the Serbian government sought to crack down on guns and police raced to investigate the fresh violence, the nation started to ask what social factors may have contributed to the mass shootings. Serbia has one of the highest number of firearms per capita in the world, and guns...
Three Essential Reads on Gun Violence in America What We Know about Mass Shootings in the USA Twenty years have gone by since we have left our four young men. They have now each reached their 32ndyear of life. Not one of them will see their 33rdyear of life. ...
WASHINGTON, DC — After every mass shooting in the United States, Americans and others around the world are confronted with the question of what lies behind this distinctly American horror. Though total gun deaths in the US have actually declined over time, mass shootings, those with at least ...
in a mass shooting was 70 percent lower during the period in which the assault weapon ban was active, while the proportion of overall gun homicides resulting from mass shootings was also down, with nine fewer fatalities related to mass shooting per 10,000 shooting deaths, according to the ...