Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map

[onehandle]

In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then, there have been at least 887 mass shootings, with shooters killing at least 1,148 people and wounding 3,184 more.

The counts come from the Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowdsourced database that tracks shootings since 2013 in which four or more people were shot. As with any crowdsourced database, it’s likely missing some shootings, and some of the shootings are missing details.

Vox’s Soo Oh created an interactive map with data from the Mass Shooting Tracker. It shows the mass shootings tracked in the database that have been verified with news reports since the Sandy Hook shooting:

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http://www.vox.com/a/mass-shootings-sandy-hook

[struggle4progress]

1. Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!

Guns! Guns! Guns! Guns!

Shots last night!
Shots the night before!
Gonna be shots tonight
Like there never was shots before!
With warm guns I'm as happy as can be!
Cuz I believe all that shooting makes me free!

[Agschmid]

2. Kick.

[sheshe2]

3. Sad truth.

How depressing is that.

[Thinkingabout]

4. It should be every Congressional member has a F rating from NRA. The gun violence needs to stop.

NRA has not come up with a sensible plan, are they capable of defining a sensible plan? American by a large majority wasn't sensible gun laws, it would be a safe vote to put sensible laws in place. This needs to go down to the state level. In Texas, it was voted to allow guns on college campuses but they did not extend this in the state house, I wonder why they don't want the guns there.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. The NRA needs to join the KKK as a pariah.

[Initech]

5. Guns have killed far more people in America than any terrrorist group ever would or could.

[WDIM]

27. Cars have killed more people than guns

Fatty unhealthy foods have killed more people than cars.
War and heads of state have killed more people than all combined.

[SheilaT]

29. That's always a dumb argument.

And yet it's brought up over and over. Are cars designed specifically to wound and kill? How about fatty unhealthy foods?

Actually cigarettes kill about 400,000 U.S. citizens every year, so tobacco is right up there with war.

If we can't put some sort of control on guns until every other thing that causes death is done away with, or can't try to reduce smoking until there are no more deaths from obesity, we can't do anything at all.

[WDIM]

30. point taken

My point was people die from preventable things everyday.

I think humanity needs to focus more on the leaders that promote violence and war and less on the tools of that violence and war. A tool is no good if people refuse to use it.

[malaise]

47. +1,000

[treestar]

49. and the fatty foods - that does not happen in an instant

and can be reversed if the person decides to improve their health chances. A gun can be used to kill in an instant.

[IrishEyes]

57. You also can't kill another person with fatty food.

You have to pass both a written and driving test to get a license to drive a car. If you drive irresponsibly, you could have your license suspended or taken away. I have no problem with people having guns as long as there were tough background checks. Personally, I have no desire to ever own a gun. i don't really understand the appeal of them.

[treestar]

58. I've never thought I would need one

Definitely feel like it would be more dangerous to have one than not. I know things can happen, but the odds are against it, and there are other things I can do.

[joshcryer]

45. And yet we have the TSA to board a plane...

...and there has been no constitutional outcry for freedom of movement.

[KG]

6. the ammosexuals would have you believe guns have nothing to do with it.

[Eleanors38]

20. I raise an objection to a slur which gets its "power" from another oft-used slur,

that being "homosexual." The "ammosexual" slur could not gain that status unless it is based on the slur often implied in "homosexual." The result of using this term perpetuates the use of sexuality as a cultural weapon.

[KG]

22. object away, i don't give a fuck.

[postatomic]

7. I honestly don't know what it will take

Both parties looove their guns so I suspect nothing will happen that could reverse this terrible 'disease'.

[pocoloco]

8. Raging Against Self Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality

Maybe this can help a few!

http://media1.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragingagainstselfdefense

[maxsolomon]

53. That article starts off putting words in the mouths of her opponents and goes from there.

Straw Men and Sophistry.

Have you heard anyone say "I'd rather be raped than have some redneck militia type try to rescue me"? Have you ever seen a similar statement on DU? I haven't, nor any of the other hypothetical "Anti-gun" quotes.

Yes, Self-Defense is the theoretical use of our oversized national private arsenal. Would that it were so. It is not born out statistically. Put this in your pipe and smoke it, Sarah Thompson, MD, John Lott-citing Executive Director of Utah Gun Owners Alliance:
http://www.armedwithreason.com/more-holes-in-the-defensive-gun-use-myth-new-study-finds-dgu-is-ineffective-and-rare/

Furthermore:
http://www.commongunsense.com/2011/09/confessions-of-advocate-for-civilian.html

[zalinda]

9. It is easy to blame it all on guns

but the plain truth is that there is a lot of rage out there. People lose their jobs, homes, family and have no hope left any more, and something breaks inside of them. People in this country have been stressed to the max, and sometimes it is one more little thing that pushes them over the edge.

Yes, guns are easy to use, but then so are vehicles or whatever you can think up that can cause the most damage. Why do people riot? These mass shootings are a symptom of our society. I understand that Canada has more guns per 1000 people than we do here in the US, but you seldom hear of mass shootings there. Their society is much more laid back than ours.

If and when our society starts to equalize, the mass shootings will diminish, along with murder/suicides, and suicides. Violence always breaks out when man or animals have to contend with survival stress for a long time.

Z

[davidn3600]

11. You can't talk about this part of it though

The fact our culture has more hate and more anger than these other ones we compare our crime to.

We are far more materialistic and individualistic then practically any other country. We set lofty goals for everyone to reach the American dream that is getting harder and harder to achieve. We place heavy value on achievement and success.

Then you have poor mental health services. You have inequalities all over the place. And we live in a culture that worships violence.

Then we wonder why some people just seem to "snap?"

[pnwmom]

13. That's not true -- Canada has about 1/3 as many guns as the US, per 100 people,

more than any other country in the world.

And our rate of gun crime is commensurately higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

U.S. 88.8 guns per 100 people
Canada 30.8 guns

[WDIM]

28. Exactly the violence is a symptom of our society

Our culture of greed seperation indvidualism competition materialism and war.

[a2liberal]

10. That seems roughly the inverse of this map...

[branford]

12. Inconvenient facts.

You should see the map showing which political party controls the districts and cities with the highest rates of gun crime.

[Sweet Freedom]

17. I’m not sure I understand the map.

Is it showing the percentage of people who own a gun in each state? If so, wouldn’t the number of people be far greater even in states with a lower percentage? For example, 30% of 27 million Texas residents own a gun, while 50% of 2 million Idaho residents own a gun. (And does that mean that 8 million Texans own one or more guns or are there 8 million guns total?) It would be interesting to see how actual numbers align with the map in the OP.

[a2liberal]

18. Yes, it's percentage of population (nt)

[Eleanors38]

21. I saw another map which indicated Vermont has more guns per capita than...

Florida and Texas, respectively.

[a2liberal]

26. *shrug*

I'm no expert on the issue honestly, I was just curious and googled it and picked the first one where I recognized the source as reputable.

[RobinA]

48. Well,

if individuals in Vermont own a greater number of guns per person than individuals in TX and FL, than your statistic and this map could both be correct. All this map shows is the percent of people who own at least one gun. You can own one or twenty-on guns, and this map only counts you once.

[Eleanors38]

60. That could be the case.

[DirtDart1319]

14. Ammosexual?

What the hell is that?

At what point do we look past the guns? Let's face it, getting rid of guns is a pipe dream. Any half-assed fabricator in a shed with a few hand tools can make a gun. It ain't rocket surgery.

Why are people in America so angry? Why is there so much depression? Why is there so little concern for life? I worked in the ER for years and the amount of people that come in beat up, shot, stabbed and otherwise assaulted is mind boggling. Focusing on one mechanism of injury seems a bit narrow minded to me.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. In "Bowling for Columbine" Michael Moore pointed out it wasn't actually guns but FEAR.

[Eleanors38]

19. A DU-accepted slur against gun-owners, utilizing the phonics

of "homosexual," and benefitting from the oft-used slur the latter term implied.

[beevul]

44. I wonder if 'hoplosexual' would be equally unhidden. N/T

[Eleanors38]

61. BWAHA-HA! That nasty -phobe thing WILL get you hidden in DU.

[LeftinOH]

23. The map corresponds EXACTLY to population density; the map

shouldn't be misinterpreted to mean that the Rocky Mountains/Plains states have fewer mass shootings because of 'less restrictive' gun laws.

[4lbs]

25. Eh, nothing to see here. The NRA will just pass it off as much needed population control.

1.3 million people killed by guns since 1968? So what. Maybe if those people had guns, they wouldn't be dead!

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[DebJ]

31. I'd like to see a world map like this. That would be very interesting, I think.

[George II]

35. Comparatively the rest of the world would probably be blank.

[DebJ]

36. Exactly. n/t

[hack89]

37. You are kidding, right?

Mexico, Central and South American murder rates dwarf ours. One third of all murders globally happen there.

[Kang Colby]

39. But...but

At least they have gun control!

[libodem]

32. .

[MyNameGoesHere]

33. I am all for gun ownership

especially if used for an anti-aging product.

[George II]

34. Truly sad. And tragically there was one where 4 people died a few weeks ago....

....in Barre, Vermont, where people with guns are supposedly different from people with guns in Chicago or Los Angeles.

[Kang Colby]

38. Ironic, isn't it?

That the "gun control states" have the most violence. Who would've guessed? From the article..

Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, for example, defines mass shootings as any shooting in which at least four people were murdered. Under those terms, mass shootings don’t appear to be increasing.

[onehandle]

40. 'Gun control states' and cities are victimized by the influx of guns from gun nut states.

The NRA is a provider of rights for domestic terrorist companies and gun fetishists.

[beevul]

41. States with loose laws and less violence, you mean.

Strange that you'd leave those important facts out.

[Kang Colby]

42. Typical delusional response....

Yet again, the controllers never manage to explain why those "gun nut states" never seem to have the same high levels of violent crime and homicide as the "gun free bastions" of Chicago, Baltimore, and D.C.

[davidpdx]

43. K & R

And on to Facebook it goes........

[Nuclear Unicorn]

46. Does this "Crowdsourced" map account for gangs and drug-war related shootings?

[maxsolomon]

54. If they pass the threshold of a mass shooting, yes.

Why would it be excluded?

Zoom into Chicago, to pick a favorite of RKBA Absolutists. There's tons of pins there.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

55. Excluded? On the contrary, I think gangs and the WoD is generating most of the violence.

[maxsolomon]

56. I thought you were implying that that violence would have been excluded, due to their agenda.

If >3 got shot, it qualifies. Unless it isn't of course.

It would be interesting to know if you're correct in your assumption.

[samsingh]

50. kick with sadness - this obsenity caused by gun loving patriots

[pediatricmedic]

51. So, whats up with the eastern half of the country?

Distribution seems rather heavy on the east half.

[Throd]

52. I don't believe it. We have strict gun control laws here in California.

Murder is illegal here too.

[Omaha Steve]

59. K&R!