Optimistically this year may end up not quite as deadly as the past couple.
Edit: looks like they’re counting differently however.
Edit2: they’re using the Gun Violence Archive number “a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time”
While Wikipedia sources from multiple lists (including VGA’s) and a shooting needs to be listed in at least two for inclusion.
This depressing page also exists exists: List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024
For 2024 (only) ugh…
If you plot it over the last 20 years it looks a lot like a Verizon coverage map. Coincidence?
Real talk, nationwide maps like that are useless. They’re just the the population map.
Sadly, yes. CNN has actually made some good graphs
Optimistically this year may end up not quite as deadly as the past couple.
Edit: looks like they’re counting differently however.
Edit2: they’re using the Gun Violence Archive number “a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time”
While Wikipedia sources from multiple lists (including VGA’s) and a shooting needs to be listed in at least two for inclusion.
Well that’s progress, at least?
I haven’t looked into this at all. Why did it jump during COVID years? People cooped up too much?
Interestingly the stripe along the east coast follows the I-95 corridor.
Because I-95 follows the cities where people live. This is basically a population heatmap.