204 mass shooting cases in US in 2015

According to the Post, the Mass Shooting Tracker is different from other shooting databases because it defines “mass shooting” as four or more people shot during one event.

Forty U.S. states this year have seen mass shooting incidents “when four or more people are shot in an event, or related series of events, likely without a cooling off period”, according to the crowd-sourced website Mass Shooting Tracker. Later he shot himself, the Lafayette City Police Chief Jim Craft told reporters. ShootingTracker.com’s list of shooting events in 2015 shows 203 shootings on the 204th day of the year, but had not yet included the Louisiana shooting. Some shootings in Chicago this year fit that definition. There have been 10 in Ohio, 14 in California and 16 in New York, The Washington Post reported.

Or, the June 17 fatal shooting of nine people by 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The leading Republican presidential candidates are overwhelmingly opposed to any effort to restrict access to guns, it noted.

Connecticut – which passed some of the most stringent gun control measures in the country following the Newtown massacre – is the state where gun control advocates have probably had the most success, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Although President Barack Obama said this week that the failure to convince Congress to pass “commonsense gun safety laws” was one of the great regrets of his presidency, Times said “Congress is unlikely to close any of the loopholes in federal gun laws exposed by the recent shootings”.