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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @10:10PM (#218808)

    ...and the anti-gun nutjobs realized long ago that they will *never* wrest firearms away from USAians.
    Anyone in the pro-gun camp who has been paying attention (rather than setting his hair on fire and running around screaming) has noticed that the stuff being addressed these days are things like background checks and gun show loopholes i.e. **people** issues.

    ...and I would think that actual hunters and legit target shooters have no problems with limits on magazine sizes|rates of fire and concealability, which are anathema to the use of guns by normal people.

    The "They're trying to take our guns away" bunch are presenting straw men.
    Everyone should realize that the NRA has become a lobbying group for the firearms industry.
    They have no shame and they deceive and distract constantly.
    People who were NRA members in the past remember a time before the lies and whoring; the mendacity has caused many to quit.

    -- gewg_