Yeah...the Washington Post is no longer a newspaper, it is a rag of the democrat party and it's policies.....
From Mother Jones, again....since you missed it...perhaps have a young child, one first learning to read, to read it to you, slowly, so you can possibly understand it....
And now....keeping in mind that the FBI is completely captured by the democrat party, as we have recently seen with the Twitter files, their use as goon squads for the democrat party, and their Gestapo tactics against the enemies of the democrat party....
Back when they were at least slightly a real law enforcement agency....
US mass shootings, 1982–2022: 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.
US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation
And....doofus.....
Lone gunmen, walking into a public space to murder innocent people is a completely different type of crime from gangs shooting at each other in democrat party controlled cities....
They have different causes, they have different solutions.....
The problem for anti-gun fanatics such as yourself......the gang shootings in left wing, democrat party controlled cities can't be focused on, because they are caused directly by the policies of the democrat party.......and can be avoided by simply not going into the small, multi-block areas in democrat party controlled cities where they are concentrated.......
