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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 05 2015, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly

A new, government-backed study [PDF] answers a question that has been on the minds of some Americans amid this summer's headlines from Charleston, Chattanooga, and Lafayette. According to the research, mass public shootings are indeed occurring more frequently than ever before in the United States.

The findings, published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last week, show that the average rate of mass public shootings has increased from one incident per year in the 1970s to 4.5 incidents per year from 2010 through 2013. The numbers corroborate a 2014 report from Mother Jones. Scholars from the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University independently analyzed data that Mother Jones had collected, and the results showed a marked rise in the frequency of mass shootings in the last three decades. Notwithstanding the recent cluster of high-profile incidents, the CRS report also finds that over the past 14 years, the rate of increase has tapered off.

http://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/mass-shootings-congressional-report/


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  • (Score: 2) by Techwolf on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:01PM

    by Techwolf (87) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:01PM (#218737)

    Shooter at carmike 8 theature near Nashville, TN about an hour ago.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @02:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @02:40PM (#219096)

    A BB gun, not a firearm.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:34PM (#219279)

      > A BB gun, not a firearm.

      Yep. Yet another case of suicide by cop. It will be interesting to find out whether he used a BB gun because he was legally prevented from obtaining a real firearm or he had enough empathy to not want others to actually die in his suicide. If he was denied a firearm, there is probably going to be a record of the attempted purchase. Of course, with the gun show loophole, he could have legally bought a firearm without any background check if he had really wanted too.