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Mass shooting contagion theory is the studied nature and effect of media coverage of mass shootings and the potential increase of mimicked events. [1] Academic study of this theory has grown in recent years due to the nature of mass shooting events, frequency of references to previous rampage shooters as inspiration and the acquisition of fame using violence, particularly in the United States. [2]
Mass shootings (that occur in public locations) are usually committed by deeply disgruntled individuals who are seeking revenge as a motive, for failures in school, career, romance, or life in general. Additionally, or alternately, they could be seeking fame or attention, and at least 16 mass shooters since the Columbine massacre have cited fame or notoriety as a motive. Fame-seeking mass ...
The U.S. has substantially more mass shootings (in which four or more people are killed) than other developed countries. [34] A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a "good guy with a gun" outcome in 5.1% of total incidents).
The search for accountability in the unending era of American mass shootings is turning to novel legal tactics against the parents who raise shooters, the gun manufacturers that appeal to them and ...
On October 1, 2015, after a gunman shot and killed his professor and eight students at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, President Barack Obama, who three years earlier, following the massacre ...
One that makes us virtually singular on the global stage. A country of mass killings, no war necessary, hyper-charged — nay, guaranteed — by our dangerously simple access to guns.
The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history. [90] [91] November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States: 27 [note 2] 22 49: Stationary camera at the back of the church Sutherland Springs church shooting: A man armed with a rifle and two pistols opened fire on churchgoers during a service. He would ...
Most mass shooting statistics do not include ones undertaken by foreign terrorists. The term "mass killings" has a similar definition. Akron shooting: At least 1 dead, ...