"The gunman who killed two doctors and two others at an Oklahoma medical building Wednesday did so after he blamed one of the physicians for causing him pain from a recent back surgery, a police chief said Thursday." Jason Hanna and Amanda Watts, "Gunman who killed 4...
The Excel file with detailed information on the 88 mass public shootings from 1998 through May 15, 2022 is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 14% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle....
Cases like this just don't get national news. Here a man with "an extensive criminal history" started firing an "AR-15 style firearm" into a crowd. Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack. Police said a woman who was lawfully...
While 19 children and two teachers were being murdered inside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, police waited outside the school trying to decide what to do. Eventually it wasn't the police who entered, but a Border Patrol Tactical Unit. The murderer also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYID6uDFZE On Fox News, a Buffalo resident makes this clear statement: “It’s ridiculous. Something has to change…If more people were armed—and knew what they were doing with a gun—because it’s not the gun. It’s the person with the gun...
Like the New Zealand and El Paso mass public shooters, the Buffalo mass public shooter had very similar views. He was an environmentalist who hated free trade and capitalists and a socialist. Like them he called himself a racial autonomist. The media of course keeps...
Spree Killer Manifesto 10 dead, 13 shot, in ‘hate crime and racially motived’ shooting at Buffalo grocery store, officials say The Buffalo murderer provides yet another example of a mass public shooter preferring gun-free zones as a target. Some of the other examples...
An attack with a bow and arrow in Norway left five people murdered and four wounded. These attacks in other countries get little attention. Norway has 1/61st the population of the United States. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg,...
Our dataset of Mass Public Shooting List US 1998-March 2021 provides information on the ages, political views, and religious beliefs of mass public shooters and these killers’ race and gender. And it also provides information on the types of guns used....
Having murdered two people and wounded a couple of others, it is clear that the attacker intended to kill as many people as possible. The quick response by people with concealed handgun permits stopped the attack. A person entered a gun store and shooting range in a...
You can download a copy of our new research on international comparison of mass public shootings is available here. Please download and read it. Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase...
Here is another example where police have said that if it wasn't for the presence of a legal concealed handgun permit holder many others could have been killed. Fortunately, one of the people wounded in the shooting had a permitted concealed handgun and was able to...