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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:28PM
> Are you saying people don't have the right to commit suicide?
I am saying that 99.9% of all gun suicides are impulse decisions that are not made with a clear mind.
> Or that in absence of a gun they wouldn't find another way, like hanging themselves in the closet with a belt or overdosing on sleeping pills?
See other post upthread about a near linear correlation between increases in gun ownership and increase in suicide rates, not just gun suicides, all suicides so substitution is not a significant factor.