Mass Shootings: Is Anyone Keeping Track? With complete list of these events?

[99th_Monkey]

a good friend of mine asks on FB: "is there an app to track mass shootings in the u.s. yet? .. like some kind of extension to google maps maybe. cuz i can't keep up."

I am hoping someone on DU might know of such a site or app.

I found this on Mother Jones: 151 mass shooting victims in 2012, with a map.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map

[sasha031]

1. I've been posting this

How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? 695 #gun deaths Excellent> (interactive map)

The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn’t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If you’re not on Twitter, you can email [e-mail].) And if you’d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it’s open. You can download it here.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

[onehandle]

2. What's a few dead people compared to Cletus' fetish?

[99th_Monkey]

3. Yes, we must not forget Cletus

We have a special room reserved for Crazy Uncle Cletus

[99th_Monkey]

5. Dude! These guys are lightweights. Check out JoeBob-the-walking-arsenal

[green for victory]

4. best resource on the net http://ssristories.com/index.php

sortable and sourced with original articles
http://ssristories.com/index.php

also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

Edit-from the above Wiki:

Prior to 1989, there were only a handful of incidents in which two or more non-perpetrators were killed by firearms at a school, including the 1966 University of Texas massacre, the 1974 Olean High School shooting, the 1976 California State University, Fullerton massacre, and the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting (the 1927 Bath School disaster was a bombing, not a shooting, with a firearm used only to detonate explosives). School shootings prior to the late 1990s, when they received intensive press and official coverage, were considered local incidents and may be substantially underreported in current tabulations, raising questions as to whether school shootings are actually increasing or are simply receiving more attention in recent years. The most recent shooting was the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012. From 1989 to 2012, there have been at least 40 such incidents.

PROZAC (the VERY FIRST SSRI drug) was introduced in 1987. Interesting, isn't it.

That's Robert F. Kennedy's 9th child Douglas Harriman Kennedy

[Iris]

6. I was going to suggest the Mother Jones study.

They narrowed their list to incidents where more than 4 people were killed. However, since Newtown, there have been at least 2 incidents with smaller numbers that I know of - a shooting in a movie theater in TX and then a school shooting today.