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Government Study Confirms That Mass Shootings Happen More Often Than They Used To

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

AnonTechie writes:

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 Bot on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:47PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:47PM (#218765) Journal

    I do not deny that removal of guns would yield less casualties, because the madman du jour would have to resort to throwing acid, manufacture sarin, or kill with axes, all of this happened in less gun happy places.

    But you should understand gun owners who feel pissed at having their use of their own tool limited because other people use it for nefarious purposes.
    Or are you happily giving up encryption and send all your logs to the NSA because some terrorist uses the internet for ISIS propaganda?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:48PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:48PM (#218766) Homepage

    their use of their own tool

    Let's not get Freudian about it.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday August 06 2015, @01:12AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday August 06 2015, @01:12AM (#218894) Journal

      their use of their own tool

      Let's not get Freudian about it.

      As Ol' Sigmund hisself said, "Sometimes a gun actually is a penis substitute."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:37PM (#218794)

    I do not deny that removal of guns would yield less casualties, because the madman du jour would have to resort to throwing acid, manufacture sarin, or kill with axes, all of this happened in less gun happy places.

    Oklahoma city was done without a gun. So was 9/11. Less instances, far more deaths are what the facts show.