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A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence.
Most mass shootings happen in the United States, which has more mass shootings than any country. The United States' Congressional Research Service acknowledges that there is not a broadly accepted definition, and defines a "public mass shooting" as one in which four or more people selected indiscriminately, not including the perpetrator, are killed, echoing the FBI definition of the term "mass murder". Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of five or more people with no cooling-off period. Related terms include school shooting and massacre.
A mass shooting may be committed by individuals or organizations in public or non-public places. Terrorist groups in recent times have used the tactic of mass shootings to fulfill their political aims. Individuals who commit mass shootings may fall into any of a number of categories, including killers of family, of coworkers, of students, and of random strangers. Individuals' motives for shooting vary.
- Responses to mass shootings take a variety of forms, depending on the context: number of casualties, the country and political climate, among other factors. The news media and other types of media cover mass shootings extensively, and, often, sensationally, and the effect of that coverage has been examined.
- Countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia have changed their gun laws in the wake of mass shootings. In contrast, the United States' constitution prohibits laws which disallow firearm ownership outright. There are more mass shootings and more guns in the United States than any other nation in the world, and about half of the world's mass shootings occur in the U.S., which averages one mass shooting a day and owns about half of the world's guns.
- The characterization of an event as a mass shooting depends upon definition and definitions vary. As of November 2017, the FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident involving "four or more people shot at once."
- An act is typically defined as terrorist if it "appears to have been intended" to intimidate or to coerce people; a mass shooting is not, in itself, an act of terrorism.
By continent and region:
Africa
- Mass shootings have occurred on the African continent, including the 2015 Sousse attacks, the 2015 Bamako hotel attack, the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, and the 1994 Kampala wedding massacre. Most mass shootings in Africa have stemmed from terrorism, with tourists and diplomats frequently being the targets. Workplace violence and prejudice against ethnic minorities have less-frequently been involved in such spontaneous acts of mass violence.
Asia
Several mass shootings have occurred in Asia, including the 1938 Tsuyama massacre, the 1983 Pashupatinath Temple shooting, the 1993 Chongqing shooting, and the 1994 Tian Mingjian incident.
India
- The single deadliest event was the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 164 people were killed and a further 308 people were wounded by terrorists.
South Korea
- South Korea has suffered multiple mass shootings in the South Korean Army, mainly due to soldier's stress and conflicts from its violence and detention from society.
Japan
- Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides per year. These numbers include all homicides in the country, not just mass shootings.[24]
Israel
- There have been many, many mass shootings in Israel such as the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, which killed 26 and injured 80, the 2002 Bat Mitzvah massacre and the June 2016, massacre at the popular Sarona center complex. These were all planned or executed by Palestinian or Arab terrorists.
- In addition there have been two mass shootings by Jews in Israel. In 1991, Ami Popper was convicted of murdering seven Palestinian men in a mass shooting carried out in 1990. In 1994 Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Muslims worshipping and injuring a further 125 in Hebron. Also known as the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.
Egypt
- Other shootings include the 2013 Meet al-Attar shooting in Egypt.
Europe
Several mass shootings have occurred in Europe, including the November 2015 Paris attacks, the 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings, the 2011 Norway attacks, the 2009 Winnenden school shooting, the 2007 Jokela school shooting, the 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting, the 2001 Zug massacre, the 2002 Erfurt massacre, the 1987 Hungerford massacre, the 1990 Puerto Hurraco massacre, the 1993 Greysteel massacre, the 2010 Cumbria shootings and the 1996 Dunblane massacre.
Russia
- Notable mass shootings include the 1992 Tatarstan shooting, the 2002 Yaroslavsky shooting, the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, the 2004 Beslan school siege, the 2012 Moscow shooting, the 2013 Belgorod shooting, and the 2014 Moscow school shooting.
North America
Canada
- Notable mass shootings in Canada include the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, the 1992 Concordia University massacre, the 2012 Danzig Street shooting, the 2014 Edmonton killings and the 2017 Quebec City mosque shooting.
Mexico
- Notable mass shootings in Mexico include the 2010 Chihuahua shootings.
United States
- Main article: Wikipedia: Mass shootings in the United States
- The U.S. has more mass shootings than any other country.
- Gun Violence Archive
South America
Argentina
- Notable mass shootings in Argentina include the 2004 Carmen de Patagones school shooting.
Brazil
- Notable mass shootings in Brazil include the 2011 Realengo massacre.
Additional Reading:
- Wikipedia - Mass shooting
- The Washington Post - The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting. By: Bonnie Berkowitz, Denise Lu & Chris Alcantara, Updated 2/15/18
- ABC 15 Arizona - Mass shootings in the US: 346 mass shootings occurred in 2017. By Courtland Jeffrey, updated 2/15/18
- Politifact - What we know about mass shootings. By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde, 2/14/18