Chart shows how common mass shootings are in America

But according to The Washington Post, some data show that there have been more mass shootings than calendar days this year. ShootingTracker.com, which is run by the Guns Are Cool page on the social-networking website Reddit, shows just how common mass shootings are in the US.

3 Years: The San Bernardino shooting is the deadliest since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which claimed the lives of 20 students and six adults.

Many people in Kentuckiana on Thursday said the news of yet another mass shooting, sadly, came as no surprise. That research looked at incidents in which the victims and shooter were strangers, and where the shooter killed four or more people.

On Oct. 1, nine people were killed and nine more injured in a campus shooting at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon.

As described in the article “The Mission-Oriented Shooter: A New Type of Mass Killer”, a mission-oriented shooter is a person whose mission is to kill as many people as possible, or to achieve maximum lethality.

Suddenly, the little-noticed crime in Georgia became the second mass shooting in a single day – and the third since Robert L. Dear opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic last week in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The gunman, 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer, was shot dead after exchange of gunfire with police forces. Gun control advocates in media and politics have again called for stricter laws after this latest incident.

“At this stage, we do not yet know why this bad event occurred”, Obama said.

But in fact, says Mr. Astor, US cultural norms have shifted in other ways, specifically around the acceptance of violence.

While Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, decried Republicans for being “complicit” in recent mass shootings, several law enforcement authorities said Thursday that there is a case to be made that licensed gun owners may act as deterrents to mass shooters.

Two online databases that use news reports to track shootings where four or more are wounded or killed found that there have been 355 such shootings since January, spanning 221 cities and 47 states.