Mass Shooting
A Mass Shooting is a mass murder that involves gun shootings (by a mass shooter).
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- Example(s):
- a School Shooting, such as:
- Garissa University College Attack Garissa, Kenya 2015 148
- Peshawar School Massacre Peshawar, Pakistan 2014 149
- November 2015 Paris Attacks Paris, France 2015 130
- 2011 Norway Attacks Oslo, Norway 2011 77
- Westgate Shopping Mall Attack Nairobi, Kenya 2013 67
- South Korea Shooting of 1982 Uiryeong County, South Korea 1982 56
- a Regious Institution Mass Shooting, such as:
- New Zealand Mosque Shootings Christchurch, New Zealand 2019 51
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- an American Mass Shooting, such as: Las Vegas Mass Shooting (2017-10-01) (
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- a School Shooting, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Massacre, Second Amendment to The United States Constitution, School Shooting, Terrorist Groups, Familicide, Workplace Violence,
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting Retrieved:2017-11-8.
- A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition, and defines a "public mass shooting"[1] as one in which four or more people selected indiscriminately, not including the perpetrator, are killed, echoing the FBI definition of the term “mass murder”. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of four or more people with no cooling-off period. Related terms include school shooting and massacre.
A mass shooting may be committed by individuals or organizations in public or non-public places. Terrorist groups in recent times have used the tactic of mass shootings to fulfill their political aims. Individuals who commit mass shootings may fall into any of a number of categories, including killers of family, of coworkers, of students, and of random strangers. Individuals' motives for shooting vary.
Responses to mass shootings take a variety of forms, depending on the context: number of casualties, the country and political climate, among other factors. The news media and other types of media cover mass shootings extensively, and, often, sensationally, and the effect of that coverage has been examined. Countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom have changed their gun laws in the wake of mass shootings. In contrast, the United States' constitution currently prohibits laws which disallow firearm ownership outright.
- A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition, and defines a "public mass shooting"[1] as one in which four or more people selected indiscriminately, not including the perpetrator, are killed, echoing the FBI definition of the term “mass murder”. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of four or more people with no cooling-off period. Related terms include school shooting and massacre.
- ↑ "There is no broadly agreed-to, specific conceptualization of this issue, so this report uses its own definition for public mass shootings."
2017
- "What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer.” In: The New York Times
- QUOTE: But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America’s fans and critics alike … mass shootings? … an ever-growing body of research consistently reaches the same conclusion. The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns. As with any crime, the underlying risk is impossible to fully erase. Any individual can snap or become entranced by a violent ideology. What is different is the likelihood that this will lead to mass murder.