*The Gun Violence Archive defines mass shootings as any incident in which four or more people were shot but not necessarily killed, excluding the shooter. It’s in everyone’s hands to work on solutions and we encourage you to learn more about how Brady is fighting to make our families, communities and streets safe again. With America also leading the world in the number of guns per person, it's vital that we don't let temporary moments of crisis turn into permanent tragedies. Imagine trying to live, work, and play in a community awash with easily obtainable weapons. And there are communities across the country, many of them Black and Brown, where gun violence linked to decades of oppressive policies, is an everyday reality. Suicides account for 60 percent of all gun deaths. Every 16 hours, a woman in America is shot and killed by a current or former intimate partner. But America’s gun violence epidemic is made up of much more than high-profile media events. Events in the data reflect the lower benchmark after 2013.Almost every day we hear of another mass shooting* in our country. This benchmark was lowered to 3 in 2013, after a mandate from the Obama administration to study mass shootings. Firearms Licensing & Categories Air rifles Blank-fire firearms at least 75 cm in length Rim-fire rifles (other than self-loading rim-fire rifles) Shotguns (.The data classifies a mass shooting as an attack in a public place where at least 4 people are killed with a gun.Our analysis is focused on shootings since 1999 - the year Columbine took place. The perpetrator of that shooting used over 20 assault rifles during that attack.Ībout the data: This chart uses Mother Jones' dataset on mass shootings, which tracks the events since 1982. That includes the Las Vegas massacre - which alone accounts for almost 40% of all mass shooting injuries since 1999.Since 2017, 12 of the 31 mass shootings involved assault rifles - which caused 39% of the deaths and 92% of the injuries.But those attacks accounted for 40% of all deaths and 69% of all injuries. Of those 115 attacks, 32 - just over a quarter - involved semi-automatic rifles.
Since 1999, there have been 115 mass shootings (defined below) in which 941 people were killed and 1,431 were injured.The killer used an AR-15 style assault rifle. Nine people died and 27 were injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio in an attack that lasted 32 seconds.
Why it matters: These weapons possess an incredible amount of killing power, and amplify the destructive will of the person who carries out an attack. The deadliest mass shootings in recent history have had one thing in common: the perpetrator used an assault rifle.
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