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No Matter How You Measure Them, Mass Shooting Deaths Are Up
Nov. 7, 2017 at 4:30 PM
By Rob Arthur
Filed under Guns
The mass shooting in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday added 26 deaths to a year of violence across the country, from a Las Vegas concert to the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airport. According to data from multiple sources, shootings like these are claiming more lives than they have at any point in the last 35 years.
Information on mass shootings is notoriously hard to acquire, in part because the federal government does not provide funding for gun violence research. But in the absence of good, up-to-date official government data, other entities have stepped in. The magazine Mother Jones, for example, keeps a database of all incidents where four or more victims are killed in a public space, excluding deaths that came as part of crimes like a robbery or gang violence.1 The Mother Jones database goes back to 1982, and mass shootings in the last few years have resulted in more total fatalities than ever.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measure-them-mass-shooting-deaths-are-up/
Nov. 7, 2017 at 4:30 PM
By Rob Arthur
Filed under Guns
The mass shooting in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday added 26 deaths to a year of violence across the country, from a Las Vegas concert to the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airport. According to data from multiple sources, shootings like these are claiming more lives than they have at any point in the last 35 years.
Information on mass shootings is notoriously hard to acquire, in part because the federal government does not provide funding for gun violence research. But in the absence of good, up-to-date official government data, other entities have stepped in. The magazine Mother Jones, for example, keeps a database of all incidents where four or more victims are killed in a public space, excluding deaths that came as part of crimes like a robbery or gang violence.1 The Mother Jones database goes back to 1982, and mass shootings in the last few years have resulted in more total fatalities than ever.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measure-them-mass-shooting-deaths-are-up/
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