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/
(Score: 5, Funny) by VortexCortex on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:20PM
Never take government studies at face value. There is always a political angle.
This "study" is surfacing now probably just as more scaremongering to manufacture consent for the proposed internment camps for any who disagree with the official ideology of the government [youtube.com], and Obama's "Prolonged Detention" without trial for pre-crime. [youtube.com] The vague language in today's legislation against "violent extremism" [allenbwest.com] can be stretched to cover nearly any form of dissent.
See you in the FEMA "Fun Camp, citizen. [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:34PM
Poe's Law strikes again!