He said that if you also included the data for 2014 from the same source that C.R.S. used, and look at recent four-year intervals instead of five-year intervals, then the average number of annual mass shootings actually declined slightly from 2011 to 2014, compared with the previous four-year period.
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Since that moment redditors founded a subreddit, The Mass Shooting Tracker, to track information about armed people attacking citizens in the U.S, they defined the controversial phenomenon as a shooting where four or more people are killed or injured.
As investigators continue piecing together what happened in San Bernardino, the debate over what to do about gun violence rages in Washington.
When a mass shooting happens, the events that follow are increasingly familiar.
Discussions started later when people wondered how many mass shootings have occurred this year across the nation.
Last week, the president described the recurring gun violence as “not normal”. In June, Dylann Roof allegedly walked into a SC church and shot and killed nine people. I don’t get it. Most of the time I can put my political affiliations aside and at least understand from where people with whom I disagree are coming, but I’m sick of trying to justify why you are okay with people dying because you can’t bear the thought of not taking your gun into a Walmart. These are one part of the sky-high rate of gun violence in the city, which has seen gun arrests increase by 22 percent this year and a total of 2,200 shootings amid 6,500 seizures of illegal guns. The small ones… well, they have become just another police report in the United States.
Women account for 50 percent of the victims in mass shootings, compared with only 15 percent of overall gun homicides, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, based on media reports from 2009 through July.
“I do have an opinion and that is as a country, we’ve decided that lax gun ownership and not good mental health care is the way that we’re going to keep doing things”, said Washington resident David Heyman. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence estimates that 31 people are murdered with a gun each day in America, 151 are treated for gun wounds and another 55 kill themselves with a gun.
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Following the 2012 school mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, which claimed 26 lives, including 20 children, the Obama administration initiated but failed to push stronger gun control laws. There have been so many shootings since Obama took office that it’s possible to make a supercut of the speeches that have followed these tragedies.
