What Are Mass Shootings

When one hears the words “mass shooter,” one tends to think of a young, white man. If not white, people definitely think of a man. Indeed, men are far more likely to be involved in any type of violent crime, especially mass shootings. However, there have been a few instances of a female carrying out a mass shooting. In addition to Tashfeen Malik, the woman in the duo that carried out the San Bernardino shooting, there have been two other instances of women carrying out a mass shooting: Jennifer San Marco and Cherie Lash Rhoades.

Sunday, October 1, 2017, thousands of people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas for a country music festival. At 10:08pm, gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the hotel just above the field aiming at the thousands of innocent people. Paddock fired constant rounds for about 10-15 minutes, taking 58 innocent lives, injuring over 500, and then taking his own life. This is now considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

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

Virginia Tech Massacre is recorded as the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunmen in U.S. history. According to Everytown.org, since December of 2012 there have been more than 120 school shootings, 55 of which happened on a college campus.

Most the recent mass shootings have happened in schools. The more recent one being in Parkland, Florida where seventeen kids and teachers

Recently, there was a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The shooting left 17 high schoolers dead and many more injured. The shooting took place at Stoneman Douglas high school on February 14, 2018. A former student at Stoneman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. This is known as the nation's most deadly school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown,

Mass shootings in the U.S and even the world are becoming more and more common every year and all but two of the shooting

Columbine and Virginia Tech were definitely two of the biggest, but not one of the first mass shootings on school grounds. On August 1, 1966, a mass shooting took place at the University of Texas. A 25 ex-marine named Charles Whitman, who majored in architectural engineering, murdered his mother and wife that morning. Whitman climbed on top of the UT Tower and started firing. “The crime scene spanned the length of five city blocks… and covered the nerve of what was then a relatively small, quiet college town.”

As stated before mass shootings have increased drastically throughout the decades. Just within 2017, the number of mass shootings are 293 with several deaths and injuries, (“Gun Violence Archive”). Within the last 10 years, the deadliest mass shootings have occurred in America history, (CNN). Recently in Las Vegas, Nevada held a music festival for people to enjoy and listen to music, but a shooting changed the evening for many. A man was in an hotel near the event and shot down towards the people and killed a total of 58 people and injured at least 200, (CNN). The Orlando shooting was right behind it with a total of 49 dead, (CNN). Since this has become a part of our everyday lives, we rarely hear about all the mass shootings that kill not even into the double digits.

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.

people and the cops can’t trace the gun back to the suspect. There has been 133 mass shootings in the U.S. between January 2005 to July 2009. The mass shooting in Las Vegas killed 58 people and injured 500 others. A church shooting in Texas killed 20 people. In order for it to be a mass shooting it has to kill more than 3 or 4 people. 3 out of 4 mass shootings in the U.S. came from kids under the age of 19. On Jan. 17, 1989 a man killed 5 children and wounding 30 other students and teachers before killing himself. Shooters in some of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. history carried models of the country’s most popular types of weapons.

of 38 school shootings in The United States. Out of the accounted number of shootings, 33 students and/or staff members have been killed in the line of fire during a school shooting. 12 out of the 38 school shootings occurred at a college level of education institute.

On April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech University, a student shot 32 people and committed suicide after the massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was mentally ill and was suffering from depressed. Even though his mental health was an issue he bought two guns at an unlicensed gun show that did not administered a background check on him (Gun Control Reform 1).

The first event occurred on August 17, 2017. According to New York Times, and Telegraph Co. UK, what happened on this day is as an act of terrorism, a van violently rammed through a crowd of nearly one hundred in Barcelona, Spain near Las Ramblas, a popular tourist destination. This event killed at least 13 people, and

The mass public shootings are defined as when in an incident, involving guns in public, kills four or more people. These public shootings do not consist of family-related or crime-related mass shootings. We often hear on the news about random shootings around the country. There are many public shootings which have become relentless and lethal in the past few years, reported by congressional research service. In recent years, the frequency of a mass public shootings has increased from 282 days between incidents to 74 days. The shootings are becoming deadlier. The average of people dying and getting wounded per