Summary: Active Shooter

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies an active shooter event as “one in which one or more persons actively engages in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area” (FBI, 2017). All active shooter events in the United States during

Psychological influences of a mass shooter are much deeper than just someone’s physical appearance. Emotions can cause people to do vile things or at least what a person may think is right in that moment.

A major concern in the United States is why mass shootings occur and what needs to be done to stop them from happening. Mass shootings have gained a significant amount of attention in 2015. Within the year, a total of 372 mass shootings have occurred in the United States killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. Mass shootings have become a popular trend within the media and have given the impression that it is the new normal. Mass shootings are a dysfunction to society, due to the fact that they create horror and tragedy within the country. Schools, shopping malls, and even movie theatres have all endured the horrific violence. Mass shootings are nothing new, however, they seem to be occurring more often and are becoming more and more violent. The three leading factors to mass shootings are problematic masculinity, mental illness, and gun control.

According to CNN’s article “A visual guide: Mass shootings in America” between the years 1966 and 2012 America has had 90 mass shootings while the next closest country, Philippines, only has 18. This is a startling number for any country to. In the same article, of the first 164 days

According to FBI.gov, an official site of the U.S. government, the FBI standards are three people must be killed by gunfire for it to be considered a mass shooting. The standards used in on shootingtracker.com are that four people have to at least be injured by gunfire, including the shooter, for it to be considered mass. Shootings have been responsible for more than 1,500 injuries and over 380 deaths throughout the entire U.S. this year. “I find it extremely shocking and heartbreaking that something so awful has struck so many of our communities,” says senior Reilly Carson. “The fact that there have been more shootings than days shows that there is something that needs to be changed.”

Mass shootings have become a disturbing issue that seems to be on the rise around the world, and no one can predict when one may occur. The FBI defines mass shootings as the killing of four or more victims. There have been a total of 274 days so far this year with a terrifying amount of 294 mass shootings (Ingraham, 2015). Mass shootings cannot be solved, but they can be prevented. This can be done by enacting policies or programs to take better care of people suffering from mental health issues, enacting better gun control laws, and by not allowing violence in entertainment such as video games.

Many mass shooters past reveal an obsession with video games or a fictional character. For example; Aaron Alexis, who committed the Washington Navy Yard massacre, had an obsession with video games. He played for a typical 5 hours a day without sleep or breaks. His favorite games were first person shooters, and he was known as the “ headshot king “ to his online friends. CNN conducted a survey in 2013 about the violent tendencies of college students and video games. “Violent games also decrease helping behavior and feelings of empathy for others. The effects occurred for males and females of all ages, regardless of what country they lived in. The effects of these games go beyond making players more aggressive. In our research, we found that people who played first-person shooting games were more accurate than others when firing a realistic gun at a mannequin -- and more likely to aim for and hit the head.” ( Bushman 3 ). With the rise in the popularity of the gaming for younger children, could the next American mass shooter be the 9 year old neighbor you have next

Studies of both ideological and non-ideological active shooters have provided several notable behaviors, qualities or characteristics. The AFSNCOA is

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and 6 adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. According to the Washington Post, we are now averaging more than one mass shooting a day. And yet, in the time since the major gun violence has been a part of the national discussion, seemingly little has overtly changed in the area of violence in entertainment and gun laws in some states may even have become more lenient Among the 11 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, more than half took place in the last 5 years.

In the recent years, the conversations of gun violence are increasing dramatically because of some homicide cases. Truly, the gun violence has been the one of biggest elements which threat both personal safety and national security in the United States. Website named Smartgunlaws.org stated that “Since 2015, the total number of incidents is 42,847; Number of deaths are 11,021; It is a really shocked statistics.” (Smartgunlaws.org,2012) It is a really shocked statistic that there are so many people died because of gun violence, but unfortunately there still some people don’t know what is gun violence. A professional editor Mascia defined that “Gun violence describes the results of all incidents of death or injury or threat with firearms without pejorative judgment within the definition. Violence is defined without intent or consequence as a consideration. To that end a shooting of a victim by a perpetrator is considered gun violence as is a defensive use or an officer involved shooting. The act itself, no matter the reason is violent in nature.” (Mascia, Fuhrman,2015).

In the last two decades, mass shootings have become seemed to be dominating news headlines in North America. These local acts of violence have devastated families, communities and countries and have since shone a light on debates surrounding gun violence and the laws that govern it, the negative affects of social media, bullying, and the wide and deep breadth of mental health issues. A mass shooting is largely defined as a shooting perpetrated by one or more persons, where four or more people are killed. Since 1966, in the United States alone, there have been twenty mass shootings yielding eleven or more victims. All of these atrocities were carried out with the use of semi-automatic rifles, all of these massacres continue to garner more and

Next categories is mass killing and is defined as an a shooting that was carried out with weapons and involves more than two or more injured party and has at least one murdered victim; 1) now mass killing is described as a homicide with victims intended to result in multiple deaths to be carried out with occurrence with no murder victims intended that resulted in numerous deaths that were carried out with other weapons other than firearm(s), and 2) follows the same type of clearance as the mass shooting

Time after time the news reports another active shooter attacking both hard and soft targets. A snapshot into active shooter incidents provided by the FBI states that there were 160 activate shooters incidents between 2003 and 2013, which averaged to about 11.4 incidents a year; In these 160 incidents there were 1,043 casualties where 486 were killed and 557 were wounded. The FBI notes of the 160 incidents, “an average of 6.4 incidents occurred in the first 7 years studied, and an average of 16.4 occurred in the last 7 years; 70% of the incidents occurred in either a commerce/business or educational environment and the shootings occurred in 40 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia”(https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/office-of-partner-engagement/active-shooter-incidents/a-study-of-active-shooter-incidents-in-the-u.s.-2000-2013 Page 6). Just to list four of the most significant casualties in the FBI’s study are; on July 20, 2012 at the Cinemark Century Theater in Aurora, Colorado there were 12 dead and 58 injured, on April 16, 2007 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia there were 32 dead and 17 injured, on November 5, 2009 at Ft. Hood Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Ft. Hood, Texas there were 13 dead and 32 injured, finally on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the shooter’s parents residences in Newtown, Connecticut there were 27 dead and 2 injured. What actions are need to be

According to the Brady campaign, “Every day, 306 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicide and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.” Gun violence is known to be one of the leading death tolls in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Gun violence is a

Mass shooting cases have been very common in the history of America. Among the recently witnessed deadly mass shooting include: harvest music festival whereby Stephen Paddock killed 59 and injured more than 520, and pulse night club where 49 were killed.