Staggering Stats: There Have Been More Mass Shootings Than Days This Year

According to Shooting Tracker, a website that tallies gun violence in the USA, there have only been eight confirmed cases of mass shootings being carried out by more than one attacker in the past year.

The shooting in San Bernardino, California marked the 355th mass shooting in the United States in less than as many days in 2015.

In the past week, there have been six mass shootings, ShootingTracker.com reports – including the shootout at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner, Comcast, customers with access to News 12. “This sickening and senseless gun violence must stop”, Bernie Sanders wrote.

“This shooting has caused each victim’s family, friends and co-workers, along with the first responders, to suffer an enormous personal tragedy”, said San Bernardino Sheriff John McMahon in a statement yesterday. Those databases, which also include incidences of domestic and gang violence, were created in 2013 and differ from the FBI’s old definition of mass murder, which exclusively counted fatalities, making it hard to compare historical trends. “A lot of these people who are getting guns who are mentally unstable, who should not be getting guns and this is a gap in our laws that we feel needs to be filled”.

In Florida, Christopher Hagon, managing partner at Incident Management Group, said his worldwide security firm has received numerous calls from companies and venues in the wake of the Paris attacks on November 13 that left 130 people dead. Federal data on mass killings was not available for 2015.

More than two-thirds of the shootings took place in private residences; about 28 percent occurred in public spaces, the study found. “Everyone is more connected now, so you hear about it from across other countries”. But the study still found there was less likelihood of mass killings in states that require background checks for handgun sales than in states that do not – and even less chance of shootings by people who were prohibited by law from possessing firearms. After the dust had settled from the conflicting initial reports, it was learned that 14 people were killed and 21 injured after an attack on a county department’s holiday party in the Inland Regional Center. “Fear is running rampant”, criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern University said in an e-mail.

“We at The Avielle Foundation are horrified and, honestly, sick of expressing our infinite heartbreak”, said Jeremy Richman, PhD, Founder and Director of The Avielle Foundation, of which Violence and Gender is the official journal, and the mission of which is to prevent violence by fostering brain science research, community engagement, and education. “A lot of that has been because of the nature of media coverage”. Only 25 of the gunmen got away without being arrested or killed, or committing suicide.

Police also found multiple explosive devices at the scene and law enforcement told the Los Angeles Times that pipe bombs had been thrown out of the SUV during police pursuit. Several others were injured. “You have personal motivations, political motivations, religious motivations, criminal motivations, or just no motivations at all, as the shooter acts out their fantasies”. He said that in many cases, it makes sense to consider them all together.