At Least One Mass Shooting Every Day This Year

The Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowd-sourced effort to, well, track mass shootings, defines such an incident as any shooting in which four or more people are killed or wounded, a definition that has been adopted by the Washington Post, ABC and other major media outlets. There have been 336 days.

Stats about how often mass shootings or mass murders happen in the US are easy to come by, but they often rely on different definitions.

Before Wednesday’s shooting, which left at least 14 dead, the most recent incident occurred over the weekend in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood clinic, where three people, including a police officer, died.

According to the Reddit community tracking the mass shootings, this year’s figure of 351 shootings has already surpassed 2014’s figure.

“One can take virtually any period of months or years during the past few decades and find a series of shootings that seemed at the time to signal a new epidemic”, Fox wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.

In their definition of a mass shooting, four or more victims had to be killed with a firearm in one event.

Local residents Adam and Michelle Romaro hug as they leave their house near the scene of the investigation of an SUV where two suspects were shot by police following a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California December 3, 2015. What else that’s become routine is the response of those who oppose any kind of common sense gun legislation. And unlike the tracker, thetally doesn’t include the killer if he or she is eventually killed by law enforcement or takes his or her own life. In the years immediately after the gun control measures were passed, gun violence continued to increase there for a few years, peaking in 2003-2004, but it dropped off by 53 percent in the subsequent seven years.

Here’s a look at the data from the last three years.

“Mass shootings are becoming an almost-everyday occurrence in this country”. “Again another hate crime in San Bernardino”.

Regardless of the cause, four people are still dead, he said in an interview.

“All of a sudden instead of being told to think about the evil person who did it, we are subconsciously told to think about the tool they used”, NRA news contributor and Navy Seal veteran Dom Raso said. Last year, overall mass shootings weren’t increasing that much, he said.

Democrats, led by President Obama and presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, have sounded the cry for Congress to pass additional restrictions on firearms in the wake of two mass shootings in the past week.