Do you find it hard or easy to believe the USA has experienced over 550 mass shootings this year?

[Anonymous]

If this is true that means there has been more mass shootings than days in the USA.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874

[Lliam]

According to Gun Violence Archive’s all-inclusive definition, there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower definition.

While the GVA collects and publishes several different types of shooting data – mass murders, number of children and teens killed or injured, officer-involved shootings, defenses gun usages and more – it is their inflated mass shooting numbers that are cited most often by the mainstream media, given its penchant for sensational headlines.

This is typical of gun-control propagandists.

https://saf.org/special-report-the-gun-violence-archive-and-its-scaring-of-america/

[Soteris]

Yepp, totally accurate. Also, it was many years ago USA actually crossed the threshold for one mass shooting a day but the news was swept under the rug.

Of note however is that there is a slight difference between the commonly accepted FBI definition of a mass shooting and the more common sense one that this database uses which makes them show different results. Namely that the FBI statistics uses the US statute "the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012" which defines it as 3 (or was it 4?) DEATHS not including the perpetrator. The database in the article however only specify injuries rather than actual deaths so includes many more cases.

[provokeesmokee]

Easy.
I'm sure they'll have even more next year.

[AngryCarl2]

That number sounds a little high to me, since mass shootings are still reported in the media and that would be more than one a day, which I haven't heard about. Do gangland killings count as mass shootings? Either way it's a terrible situation.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Its been decades since the USA had a day without a shooting.

[DryGermanGuy]

„A day without blood is like a day without sunshine.“
- Private Joker, Full Metal Jacket

[jahaims]

Mass shooting means 2 or more people were killed or injured by a firearm. We have 350million people in this country so 550 is easy to believe. Gang violence and the like count towards mass shootings.

[riverrat3]

Easy to believe and that is sad