Cover What is Mass Shooting? Cases Over The Years States's Statistics Target and Motivations Shooter's Profile Number of Victims Comparing the Numbers Knowing each case

U.S Mass Shootings

The statistics of a terrifying normalcy

What is mass shooting?

Mass shootings are defined by studies as having four or more victims and don't include gang killings or slayings that involve the death of multiple family members.
When it comes to that topic, the United States is tragically exceptional: there are more public mass shootings in the United States than in any other country in the world, according to several studies

The U.S have:

4.4%

of the global population

42%

of the world’s guns

31%

of worldwide mass shooters

Cases over the years

Total of occurences

Total of fatalities

Total of injured

What's behind all these mass shootings in the US?

Many of the shooters in the United States were mentally ill, according to the data. But studies have shown that the estimated number of cases of mental illness hasn't gone up significantly while the number of mass shootings in the U.S. has skyrocketed.

Motivations

Targets

Shooter's Profile

Number of Victims

Acoording to a study by Adam Lankford, in the United States, there are 6.87 victims on average per incident. In the other 171 countries the average was 8.8 victims per incident.

Comparing the numbers

This chart can help you to compare the number of occurrences, victims and fatalities of each state. Each circle represents a state, the larger the circle the greater the number of deaths.
The Las Vegas strip mass shooting in June 2016 was one of the worst mass shots in US history, with 585 victims, is the main reason why Nevada is the state with the most victims. California is the state with the most occurrences and deaths in recent years.

Knowing Each Case

Of the 316 registered cases, 192 occurred between 2011 and 2017, corresponding to 60.7% of the total number of cases. Of these 192, 132 occurred between 2015 and 2016, corresponding to 68.75%.
Each circle represents a shooting, click on the circle to access the news of that case!