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Memorials for some of the deadliest mass shootings that occurred in the United States. Clockwise from top left: The 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the Orlando nightclub shooting, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the 2019 El Paso shooting. Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm ...
- Gun Laws in The United States
In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is...
- Thousand Oaks Shooting
On November 7, 2018, a mass shooting occurred in Thousand...
- Sutherland Springs Church Shooting
Shooting. A few minutes after 11:00 a.m., Kelley arrived in...
- Binghamton Shooting
On April 3, 2009, a mass shooting occurred at the American...
- Wah Mee Massacre
The Wah Mee massacre was a mass shooting that occurred...
- Howard Unruh
Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009)...
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There are a variety of definitions of a mass shooting: 1. Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowdsourced data site cited by CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, the BBC, etc., defines a mass shooting as any incident in which four or more people are shot, whether injured or killed. 2. CBS defines a mass shooting as an event inv...
Africa
There have been some notable shootings on the continent, including a 1927 shooting in South Africa perpetrated by Stephanus Swart, the 2016 Grand Bassam attack in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, and the 1994 Kampala wedding massacre in Kampala, Uganda. Whilst incidents of mass violence resulting from terrorism and ethnic conflicthave occurred on the continent, "mass shootings" as generally understood are rare in Africa.
Asia
Several mass shootings have occurred in Asia, including the 1878 Hyderabad shooting and 1983 Pashupatinath Temple shooting in India, the 1938 Tsuyama massacre in Japan, the 1948 Babrra massacre in Pakistan, the 2014 Peshawar school massacre killing 149 people, the 1993 Chongqing shooting and the 1994 Tian Mingjian incident in China, as well as the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre.
Europe
The deadliest mass shooting by a lone individual in modern history occurred in Europe with the 2011 Norway attacks in Norway, in which 77 people were killed. Of those killed, 69 died of gunshot wounds.
After mass shootings, some survivors have written about their experiences and their experiences have been covered by journalists. A survivor of the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting wrote about his reaction to other mass shooting incidents. The father of a victim in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, wrote about ...
Mental health and criminal records
In a study of 55 mass shooters from Mother Jones' mass shooting database, researchers found that 87.5 percent of perpetrators had misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated or undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric illnesses. According to a study by The Violence Project, 42 percent of all mass shooters experienced physical or sexual abuse, parental suicide, or were victims of bullying.They also found that 72 percent of perpetrators were suicidal. In a study of 171 mass shooters who attacked in the U...
Motives
Mass shootings can be motivated by religious extremism, political ideologies (e.g., neo-Nazism, terrorism, white supremacism), racism, homophobia, mental illness, and revenge against bullying, among other reasons. Forensic psychologist Stephen Ross cites extreme anger and the notion of working for a cause – rather than mental illness – as primary explanations. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers found that "fewer than five percent of the 120,000 gun-related killings in the United Sta...
Social science and family structure
A noteworthy connection has been reported in the U.S. between mass shootings and domestic or family violence, with a current or former intimate partner or family member killed in 76 of 133 cases (57%), and a perpetrator having previously been charged with domestic violence in 21.
Media
Some people have considered whether media attention revolving around the perpetrators of mass shootings is a factor in sparking further incidents.In response to this, some in law enforcement have decided against naming mass shooting suspects in media-related events to avoid giving them notoriety. The effects of messages used in the coverage of mass shootings have been studied. Researchers studied the role the coverage plays in shaping attitudes toward persons with serious mental illness and p...
Gun law reform
Responses to mass shootings take a variety of forms, depending on the country and political climate.
"Public Mass Shootings in the United States: Selected Policy Implications"—Congressional Research Service"Washington Case Revives Debate About 'Contagious' Mass Shootings"—All Things Considered, 27 October 2014The crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker project applies the most expansive definition: four or more shot in any incident, including the perpetrator. [9] [10] A 2019 study of mass shootings published in the journal Injury Epidemiology recommended developing "a standard definition that considers both fatalities and nonfatalities to most ...
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred [14] [15] in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood. Ten people, all of whom were African Americans, were murdered and three were injured. [16] [17] [18] The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, [5] livestreamed part of the ...
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The Uvalde school shooting [6] [7] [8] was a mass shooting that occurred on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, [9] [10] a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while 17 others were injured but survived.
Unknown. On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people [a] and wounding at least 413.
