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{{Mature}}{{Important}}A '''mass shooting''' is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States'
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[[File:AP pulse nightclub shooting 13 jt 160612 4x3 992.jpg|thumb|220x220px|Pulse Nightclub Massacre]]
[[File:Las_Vegas_shooting.jpg|thumb|420x420px|The 2017 Las Vegas shooting, perpetrated by [[Stephen Paddock]], is currently ranked the deadlist mass shooting in American history.]]
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 or injured, echoing the FBI definition of the term "Going Postal". However, according to the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law on Jan 2013, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting resulting in at least 3 victims, excluding the perpetrator. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of five or more people (sometimes four) with no cooling-off period. A sub-type of a mass shooting is a [[School Shooting|school shooting]], which is a mass shooting that takes place on a school or college campus and makes up a majority of mass shootings.
A '''mass shooting''' is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States' 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 or injured, echoing the FBI definition of the term "Going Postal". However, according to the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law on Jan 2013, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting resulting in at least 3 victims, excluding the perpetrator. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of five or more people (sometimes four) with no cooling-off period. A sub-type of a mass shooting is a [[School Shooting|school shooting]], which is a mass shooting that takes place on a school or college campus and makes up a majority of mass shootings.


A mass shooting may be committed by individuals or organizations in public or non-public places. in recent  
A mass shooting may be committed by individuals or organizations in public or non-public places. in recent  
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!Fatalities
!Fatalities
!Injuries
!Injuries
!Suicide
!Fate of perpetrator(s)
|-
|-
|[[Patrick Sherrill]]
|[[Patrick Sherrill]]
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|Workplace
|Workplace
|August 20, 1986
|August 20, 1986
|Edmond, Oklahoma
|Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S.
|15
|15
|6
|6
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Omar Mateen]]
|[[Omar Mateen]]
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|Domestic [[Terrorism]]
|Domestic [[Terrorism]]
|June 12, 2016
|June 12, 2016
|Orlando, Florida
|Orlando, Florida, U.S.
|50
|50
|53
|53
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Stephen Paddock]]
|[[Stephen Paddock]]
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|Festival Massacre
|Festival Massacre
|October 1, 2017
|October 1, 2017
|Las Vegas, Nevada
|Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
|59
|59
|851
|851
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[James Oliver Huberty]]
|[[James Oliver Huberty]]
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|Restaurant Shooting
|Restaurant Shooting
|July 18, 1984
|July 18, 1984
|San Diego, California
|San Diego, California, U.S.
|22
|22
|19
|19
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[George Hennard]]
|[[George Hennard]]
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|[[Hate crime|Hate Crime]]
|[[Hate crime|Hate Crime]]
|October 16, 1991
|October 16, 1991
|Killeen, Texas
|Killeen, Texas, U.S.
|24
|24
|20
|20
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Devin Patrick Kelley]]
|[[Devin Patrick Kelley]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|November 5, 2017
|November 5, 2017
|Sutherland Springs, Texas
|Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S.
|27
|27
|20
|20
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Aaron Alexis]]
|[[Aaron Alexis]]
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|Army Base
|Army Base
|September 16, 2013
|September 16, 2013
|Washington D.C., USA
|Washington D.C., U.S.
|13
|13
|8
|8
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Nidal Malik Hassan]]
|[[Nidal Malik Hassan]]
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|Army Base
|Army Base
|November 9, 2009
|November 9, 2009
|Fort Hood, Texas
|Fort Hood, Texas, U.S.
|13
|13
|30
|30
|N
|Sentenced to death; still awaiting execution
|-
|-
|[[Robert Bowers]]
|[[Robert Bowers]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|October 27, 2018
|October 27, 2018
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
|11
|11
|7
|7
|N
|Arrested; still awaiting conviction
|-
|-
|[[Dylann Roof]]
|[[Dylann Roof]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|June 17, 2015
|June 17, 2015
|Charleston, South Carolina
|Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
|9
|9
|1
|1
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[Randy Stair]]
|[[Randy Stair]]
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|Workplace
|Workplace
|June 8, 2017
|June 8, 2017
|Eaton Township, Pennsylvania
|Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
|3
|3
|0
|0
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[DeWayne Craddock]]
|[[DeWayne Craddock]]
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|Workplace
|Workplace
|May 31, 2019
|May 31, 2019
|Virginia Beach, Virginia
|Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.
|12
|12
|5
|5
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Jared Lee Loughner]]
|[[Jared Lee Loughner]]
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|Political Terrorism
|Political Terrorism
|January 8, 2011
|January 8, 2011
|Tucson, Arizona
|Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
|6
|6
|13
|13
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[David Katz]]
|[[David Katz]]
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|Festival Massacre
|Festival Massacre
|August 26, 2018
|August 26, 2018
|Jacksonville, Florida
|Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
|2
|2
|11
|11
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|[[Woo Bum Kon]]
|Sang-Namdo, South Korea
|Spree Shooting
|April 26, 1982
|Sang-Namdo, South Korea
|56
|35
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Martin Bryant]]
|[[Martin Bryant]]
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|35
|35
|24
|24
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[Ian David Long]]
|[[Ian David Long]]
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|Nightclub Attack
|Nightclub Attack
|November 7, 2018
|November 7, 2018
|Thousand Oaks, California
|Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.
|13
|13
|10
|10
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Patrick Crusius]]
|[[Patrick Crusius]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|August 3, 2019
|August 3, 2019
|El Paso, Texas
|El Paso, Texas, U.S.
|22
|22
|24
|24
|N
|Arrested; still awaiting conviction
|-
|-
|[[Brenton Tarrant]]
|[[Brenton Tarrant]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|March 15, 2019
|March 15, 2019
|Christchurch, New Zealand
|Christchurch, New Zealand, U.S.
|51
|51
|49
|49
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[Baruch Goldstein]]
|[[Baruch Goldstein]]
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|30
|30
|125
|125
|N
|Beaten to death by survivors
|-
|-
|[[James Holmes]]
|[[James Holmes]]
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|Movie Theater Shooting
|Movie Theater Shooting
|July 20, 2012
|July 20, 2012
|Aurora, Colorado
|Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
|12
|12
|70
|70
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[Anders Behring Breivik]]
|[[Anders Behring Breivik]]
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|Political Terrorism
|Political Terrorism
|July 22, 2011
|July 22, 2011
|Oslo. Norway
|Oslo, Norway
|77
|77
|319
|319
|N
|21 years' preventive detention
|-
|-
|[[Derrick Bird]]
|[[Derrick Bird]]
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|Spree Shooting
|Spree Shooting
|June 2, 2010
|June 2, 2010
|Cumbria, England
|Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
|13
|13
|11
|11
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Alexandre Bissonnette]]
|[[Alexandre Bissonnette]]
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|6
|6
|19
|19
|N
|Life in prison
|-
|-
|[[Howard Unruh]]
|[[Howard Unruh]]
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|Spree Shooting
|Spree Shooting
|September 6, 1949
|September 6, 1949
|Camden, New Jersey
|Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
|13
|13
|3
|3
|N
|Life in lunatic asylum; died in 2009
|-
|-
|[[Wade Michael Page]]
|[[Wade Michael Page]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|August 5, 2012
|August 5, 2012
|Oak Creek, Wisconsin
|Oak Creek, Wisconsin, U.S.
|7
|7
|4
|4
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Connor Betts]]
|[[Connor Betts]]
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|Nightclub Attack
|Nightclub Attack
|August 4, 2019
|August 4, 2019
|Dayton, Ohio
|Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
|10
|10
|17
|17
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Elliot Rodger]]
|[[Elliot Rodger]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|May 23, 2014
|May 23, 2014
|Isla Vista, California
|Isla Vista, California, U.S.
|6
|6
|14
|14
|Y
|Suicide
|-
|-
|[[Robert Aaron Long]]
|[[Robert Aaron Long]]
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|Hate Crime  
|Hate Crime  
|March 16, 2021
|March 16, 2021
|Atlanta, Georgia  
|Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
|8
|8
|1
|1
|N
|Arrested; still awaiting conviction
|-
|-
|[[Gabriel Wortman]]
|[[Gabriel Wortman]]
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|22
|22
|3
|3
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Jakrapanth Thomma]]
|[[Jakrapanth Thomma]]
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|30
|30
|57
|57
|N
|Killed by police
|-
|-
|[[Payton Gendron]]
|[[Payton Gendron]]
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|Hate Crime
|Hate Crime
|May 14, 2022
|May 14, 2022
|Buffalo, New York
|Buffalo, New York, U.S.
|10
|10
|3
|3
|N
|Arrested; still awaiting conviction
|-
|[[Anderson Lee Aldrich]]
|Club Q
|Hate Crime
|November 19–20, 2022
|Colorado Springs, Colorado  U.S.
|5
|26
|Arrested; still awaiting conviction
|-
|[[Lyndon McLeod]]
|Various locations in Denver and Lakewood
|Spree Shooting
|December 27, 2021
|Denver and Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.
|5
|2
|Killed by police
|-
|[[David Sonboly]]
|Olympia shopping mall
|Spree Shooting
|July 22, 2016
|Moosach, Munich, Germany
|9
|36
|Suicide
|}
|}
[[Category:List]]
[[Category:List]]
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[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]
[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Mass murder]]
[[Category:Terrorists]]
[[Category:Terrorists]]
[[Category:Homicidal]]
[[Category:Homicidal]]

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The 2017 Las Vegas shooting, perpetrated by Stephen Paddock, is currently ranked the deadlist mass shooting in American history.

A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States' 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 or injured, echoing the FBI definition of the term "Going Postal". However, according to the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law on Jan 2013, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting resulting in at least 3 victims, excluding the perpetrator. Another unofficial definition of a mass shooting is an event involving the shooting (not necessarily resulting in death) of five or more people (sometimes four) with no cooling-off period. A sub-type of a mass shooting is a school shooting, which is a mass shooting that takes place on a school or college campus and makes up a majority of mass shootings.

A mass shooting may be committed by individuals or organizations in public or non-public places. in recent

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McDonald's Massacre

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 killer of family, of coworkers , of students , and of random strangers. Individuals' motives for shooting vary.

File:You Can't Prevent It You Can Only Endure It
A video showing insight on mass shootings.

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 (using the definition of four people injured) and owns about half of the world's guns.

Examples[edit]

Perpetrator(s) Place Type of Massacre Date Location Fatalities Injuries Fate of perpetrator(s)
Patrick Sherrill Edmond Post Office Workplace August 20, 1986 Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. 15 6 Suicide
Omar Mateen Pulse Nightclub Domestic Terrorism June 12, 2016 Orlando, Florida, U.S. 50 53 Killed by police
Stephen Paddock Route 91 Harvest Festival Festival Massacre October 1, 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. 59 851 Suicide
James Oliver Huberty McDonald's Restaurant Shooting July 18, 1984 San Diego, California, U.S. 22 19 Killed by police
George Hennard Luby's Cafeteria Hate Crime October 16, 1991 Killeen, Texas, U.S. 24 20 Suicide
Devin Patrick Kelley First Baptist Church Hate Crime November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S. 27 20 Suicide
Aaron Alexis Washington Navy Yard Army Base September 16, 2013 Washington D.C., U.S. 13 8 Killed by police
Nidal Malik Hassan Fort Hood Navy Base Army Base November 9, 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. 13 30 Sentenced to death; still awaiting execution
Robert Bowers Tree of Life Synagogue Hate Crime October 27, 2018 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. 11 7 Arrested; still awaiting conviction
Dylann Roof Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Hate Crime June 17, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. 9 1 Life in prison
Randy Stair Weis Markets Supermarket Workplace June 8, 2017 Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. 3 0 Suicide
DeWayne Craddock Virginia Beach Municipal Center Workplace May 31, 2019 Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. 12 5 Killed by police
Jared Lee Loughner Safeway Supermarket Political Terrorism January 8, 2011 Tucson, Arizona, U.S. 6 13 Life in prison
David Katz Jacksonville Landing Festival Massacre August 26, 2018 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. 2 11 Suicide
Woo Bum Kon Sang-Namdo, South Korea Spree Shooting April 26, 1982 Sang-Namdo, South Korea 56 35 Suicide
Martin Bryant Port Arthur Spree Shooting April 28-29, 1996 Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia 35 24 Life in prison
Ian David Long Borderline Bar and Grill Nightclub Attack November 7, 2018 Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. 13 10 Suicide
Patrick Crusius Walmart Supercenter Hate Crime August 3, 2019 El Paso, Texas, U.S. 22 24 Arrested; still awaiting conviction
Brenton Tarrant Al Noor Mosque & Linwood Islamic Center Hate Crime March 15, 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, U.S. 51 49 Life in prison
Baruch Goldstein Cave of the Patriarchs Religious Terrorism February 25, 1994 Hebron, West Bank 30 125 Beaten to death by survivors
James Holmes Century 16 Movie Theater Movie Theater Shooting July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colorado, U.S. 12 70 Life in prison
Anders Behring Breivik Regjeringskvartalet & AUF Youth Camp Political Terrorism July 22, 2011 Oslo, Norway 77 319 21 years' preventive detention
Derrick Bird Various locations Spree Shooting June 2, 2010 Cumbria, England, United Kingdom 13 11 Suicide
Alexandre Bissonnette Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City Hate Crime January 29, 2017 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada 6 19 Life in prison
Howard Unruh River Road Spree Shooting September 6, 1949 Camden, New Jersey, U.S. 13 3 Life in lunatic asylum; died in 2009
Wade Michael Page Sikh Temple of Wisconsin Hate Crime August 5, 2012 Oak Creek, Wisconsin, U.S. 7 4 Suicide
Connor Betts Ned Peppers Bar Nightclub Attack August 4, 2019 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. 10 17 Killed by police
Elliot Rodger Various locations in Isla Vista Hate Crime May 23, 2014 Isla Vista, California, U.S. 6 14 Suicide
Robert Aaron Long Asian massage parlors in Atlanta Hate Crime March 16, 2021 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. 8 1 Arrested; still awaiting conviction
Gabriel Wortman Various locations in Nova Scotia Spree Shooting April 18-19, 2020 Nova Scotia, Canada 22 3 Killed by police
Jakrapanth Thomma Terminal 21 Korat Shopping Mall Spree Shooting February 8-9, 2020 Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand 30 57 Killed by police
Payton Gendron Tops Friendly Markets supermarket Hate Crime May 14, 2022 Buffalo, New York, U.S. 10 3 Arrested; still awaiting conviction
Anderson Lee Aldrich Club Q Hate Crime November 19–20, 2022 Colorado Springs, Colorado U.S. 5 26 Arrested; still awaiting conviction
Lyndon McLeod Various locations in Denver and Lakewood Spree Shooting December 27, 2021 Denver and Lakewood, Colorado, U.S. 5 2 Killed by police
David Sonboly Olympia shopping mall Spree Shooting July 22, 2016 Moosach, Munich, Germany 9 36 Suicide
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