560 Mass Shootings in 2023

[ozro]

Zero

Agreed. So don't you just love it when someone foolishly argue it was 309 instead of 503?
Wtf difference does it make?
I know it may not be achieved, but zero (0) should be the goal.

 

[Arlette]

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, there have been 560 mass shootings in the US this year. Their figure includes shootings that happen in homes and in public places.
The mass shooting on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas where 3 people were killed and several others injured is the latest episode. (December 6, 2023) When are we going to listen to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and abolish the 2nd Amendment? If this Amendment was abolished there would be far fewer mass shootings. Because there would be far fewer guns floating around.
I wish our politicians were not afraid to follow Justice Stevens ideas.

Probably a world record. We can congratulate ourselves.

 

[1srelluc]

Blue or red don't matter. They are talking about the US as a whole.

It does to me.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

Really. How nice.

So the facts are irrelevant to you as long as you can tell a good story of fear.

 

[okfine]

So the facts are irrelevant to you as long as you can tell a good story of fear.

What a you blabbing about? You should play your word games on an idiot you relate to.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

What a you blabbing about? You should play your word games on an idiot you relate to.

Poor thing not up to the challenge. It’s pretty simple either you are interesting in having a legitimate conversation using the relative facts or you rely on lies and deception in a desperate attempt to pretend to be smarter than you really are. And we’ve all seen the path you have chosen.

 

[The Duke]

What do I look like? Am I a Democrat, Republican or Independent? What race/ethnicity am I?

I say you're older, black, Democrat, educated but not super intelligent, and live in a city.

 

[okfine]

Poor thing not up to the challenge. It’s pretty simple either you are interesting in having a legitimate conversation using the relative facts or you rely on lies and deception in a desperate attempt to pretend to be smarter than you really are. And we’ve all seen the path you have chosen.

I'm not up to having any conversation with an idiot as yourself. Now I'll say something you may understand... adios cabron.

BTW, are you related to Lordlittledick?

 

[The Duke]

Poor thing not up to the challenge. It’s pretty simple either you are interesting in having a legitimate conversation using the relative facts or you rely on lies and deception in a desperate attempt to pretend to be smarter than you really are. And we’ve all seen the path you have chosen.

"Smarter" and okfine do not belong in the same sentence usually.

Unless it's "A hamster is smarter than okfine."

 

[M14 Shooter]

Zero

For as long as there are guns, there will be mass shootings.
There will always be guns.
Cope.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

I'm not up to having any conversation with an idiot as yourself. Now I'll say something you may understand... adios cabron.

BTW, are you related to Lordlittledick?

Poor little guy upset you can’t defend your position with facts. Maybe next time you will not be such a lying sack of shit, but just maybe

 

[Lord-Humungus]

"Smarter" and okfine do not belong in the same sentence usually.

Unless it's "A hamster is smarter than okfine."

That’s a low bar for a hamster

 

[okfine]

Poor little guy upset you can’t defend your position with facts. Maybe next time you will not be such a lying sack of shit, but just maybe

What facts didn't you hear?

 

[Lord-Humungus]

What facts didn't you hear?

I didn’t hear any from you because you haven’t used any yet

 

[2aguy]

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, there have been 560 mass shootings in the US this year. Their figure includes shootings that happen in homes and in public places.
The mass shooting on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas where 3 people were killed and several others injured is the latest episode. (December 6, 2023) When are we going to listen to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and abolish the 2nd Amendment? If this Amendment was abolished there would be far fewer mass shootings. Because there would be far fewer guns floating around.
I wish our politicians were not afraid to follow Justice Stevens ideas.

The gun violence archive lies...

The problem is how Bryant and his 20 staffers define mass shootings. When most people hear the term “mass shooting,” they picture a crazed gunman stalking the halls of a school or a shopping mall, coldly and randomly executing innocent young victims. What does not come to mind are rival drug crews shooting it out in Chicago or Detroit, or a madman murdering his entire family, which no sane person would consider a mass shooting. The GVA makes no such distinction. If four people are wounded, the GVA labels it a mass shooting regardless of the circumstances, and the media and anti-gun politicians lap up the GVA’s inflated stats.
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When I interviewed Bryant in July for our special report, I asked him if he actually believed that the average news consumer even considers domestic violence or gang warfare when they hear the term mass shooting. Bryant replied, “I don’t know. I know what we want to do is provide numbers and let the journalists, advocates and ‘congress critters’ look at the data, glean details and drill down on it.”
Unfortunately, today’s legacy journalists and anti-rights politicians are too lazy to do any drilling down. They prefer to cut and paste Bryan’s off-the-charts stats.
The bottom line: Bryant and his GVA know full well they’re supplying flawed data, which the media treats as gospel. I’m guessing Bryant and his anti-gun pals are laughing about it, too.



Fake News: CNN Reports Over 640 Mass Shootings in 2021 - The Truth About Guns

“We drill down to granularity of the street level, which is what the FBI doesn’t do,” he said.
According to their new report titled: “Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2020,” the FBI defines active shootings as:

• Shootings in public places
• Shootings occurring at more than one location
• Shootings where the shooter’s actions were not the result of another criminal act
• Shootings resulting in a mass killing
• Shootings indicating apparent spontaneity by the shooter
• Shootings where the shooter appeared to methodically search for potential victims
• Shootings that appeared focused on injury to people, not buildings or objects

Shootings were excluded from the FBI’s list if they were the result of:

• Self-defense
• Gang violence
• Drug violence
• Contained residential or domestic disputes
• Controlled barricade/hostage situations
• Crossfire as a byproduct of another ongoing criminal act
• An action that appeared not to have put other people in peril

By comparison, the Gun Violence Archive excludes nothing, even if the shooting is gang or drug related – the two main causes of most violence in the country today. Asked if he believed that the average news consumer even considers domestic violence or gang warfare when they hear the term mass shooting, Bryant said, “I don’t know. I know what we want to do is provide numbers and let the journalists, advocates and ‘congress critters’ look at the data, glean details and drill down on it.”
https://armedamericannews.org/special-report-the-gun-violence-archive-and-its-scaring-of-america/

 

[2aguy]

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, there have been 560 mass shootings in the US this year. Their figure includes shootings that happen in homes and in public places.
The mass shooting on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas where 3 people were killed and several others injured is the latest episode. (December 6, 2023) When are we going to listen to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and abolish the 2nd Amendment? If this Amendment was abolished there would be far fewer mass shootings. Because there would be far fewer guns floating around.
I wish our politicians were not afraid to follow Justice Stevens ideas.

The actual, comprehensive list of mass public shootings going back to the 1980s, using the actual definition, as explained by Mother JOnes, anti-gun, left wing extremist site...

US mass shootings, 1982–2023: Data from Mother Jones’ investigation

Dating back to at least 2005, the FBI and leading criminologists essentially defined a mass shooting as a single attack in a public place in which four or more victims were killed. We adopted that baseline for fatalities when we gathered data in 2012 on three decades worth of cases.
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• Here is a description of the criteria we use:
  
  • The perpetrator took the lives of at least four people. A 2008 FBI report identifies an individual as a mass murderer—versus a spree killer or a serial killer—if he kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), typically in a single location. (*In 2013, the US government’s fatality baseline was revised down to three; our database reflects this change beginning from Jan. 2013, as detailed above.)
  • The killings were carried out by a lone shooter. (Except in the case of the Columbine massacre and the Westside Middle School killings, which involved two shooters.)
  • The shootings occurred in a public place. (Except in the case of a party on private property in Crandon, Wisconsin, and another in Seattle, where crowds of strangers had gathered, essentially constituting a public crowd.) Crimes primarily related to gang activity or armed robbery are not included, nor are mass killings that took place in private homes (often stemming from domestic violence).
  • Perpetrators who died or were wounded during the attack are not included in the victim tallies.
  • We included a handful of cases also known as “spree killings“—cases in which the killings occurred in more than one location, but still over a short period of time, that otherwise fit the above criteria.
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Our research focused on indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed by the attacker. We exclude shootings stemming from more conventionally motivated crimes such as armed robbery or gang violence. (Or in which the perpetrators have not been identified.) Other news outlets and researchers have since published larger tallies that include a wide range of gun crimes in which four or more people have been either wounded or killed. While those larger datasets of multiple-victim shootings are useful for studying the broader problem of gun violence, our investigation provides an in-depth look at a distinct phenomenon—from the firearms used and mental health factors to the growing copycat problem. Tracking mass shootings is complex; we believe ours is the most useful approach for studying this specific phenomenon.



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The actual number of mass shootings from Mother Jones......


US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation


2022...12

2021...6

2020....2

2019....10

2018... 12

2017: 11 ( 5 according to the old standard)

2016....6

2015....4 ( obama's new standard....7)

2014....2 (4)

2013....5

2012....7

2011....3

2010....1

2009....4

2008....3

2007....4

2006....3

2005...2

2004....1

2003...1

2002 not listed so more than likely 0

2001....1

2000....1

1999....5

1998...3

1997....2

1996....1

1995...1

1994...1

1993...4

1992...2

1991...3

1990...1

1989...2

1988....1

1987...1

1986...1

1985... not listed so probably 0

1984...2

1983...not listed so probably 0

1982...1

School shootings...

2022.....1
2021....1
2020....0
2019....0
2018.....2
2017....0
2016...0
2015....1 (community college)
2014...1
2013.....0
2012....2
2011....0
2010...0
2006.....1
1999.......1
1998.....2
1992....1
1989....1

US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation

US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation


Deer kill 200 people a year.....

Lawn mowers between 90-100 people a year....

Ladders 300 people a year....

bathtubs 350 people a year...

Cars killed over 39,000 people in 2019...



Total number of people killed in mass public shootings by year...


2022....74
2021...43
2020....5
2019....73
2018.....93
2017........117
2016......71
2015......37
2014..... 9
2013..... 36
2012..... 72
2011..... 19
2010....9
2009...39
2008...18
2007...54
2006...21
2005...17
2004...5
2003...7
2002...not listed by mother jones
2001...5
2000...7
1999...42
1998...14
1997...9
1996...6
1995...6
1994....5
1993...23
1992...9
1991...35
1990...10
1989...15
1988...7
1987...6
1986...15
1985...(none listed)
1984...28
1983 (none listed)
1982...8

 

[jotathought]

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, there have been 560 mass shootings in the US this year. Their figure includes shootings that happen in homes and in public places.
The mass shooting on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas where 3 people were killed and several others injured is the latest episode. (December 6, 2023) When are we going to listen to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and abolish the 2nd Amendment? If this Amendment was abolished there would be far fewer mass shootings. Because there would be far fewer guns floating around.
I wish our politicians were not afraid to follow Justice Stevens ideas.

What prohibition has been successful?

 

[whitehall]

The NRA has far too much power. Politicians should not be allowed to receive donations from the NRA.

The NRA has no power. The ignorant left depends on the power of a mentally impaired president who invited millions of potentially dangerous illegal aliens into the United States.

 

[M14 Shooter]

What facts didn't you hear?

The % of guns not used in mass shootings each year.

 

[okfine]

The % of guns not used in mass shootings each year.

To tell you the truth, I couldn't care less. It means jack.