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struggle4progress

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Tue Jun 14, 2016, 04:15 PM Jun 2016

Mass shootings: largely an American phenomenon

By AJ Willingham, CNN
Updated 5:23 PM ET, Mon June 13, 2016

From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world's mass shootings took place in the US ... according to a 2016 study that used the FBI definition of 'mass shooting' ... It surveyed 292 incidents and found 90 of them occurred in America ... While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings.

The number of 'mass shootings' changes depending on how you define it ... According to the Gun Violence Archive, which compiles data from shooting incidents, a "mass shooting" is any incident where four or more people are wounded or killed. That number can include any gunmen as well. By that definition, we've seen 136 mass shootings in the first 164 days of this year.

... Congressional reports .. sometimes exclude gang-related or domestic incidents and focus on "gunmen who select victims indiscriminately." Use that, and the total tally dwindles to single digits ...


http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/mass-shootings-in-america-in-charts-and-graphs-trnd/index.html

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