Mass shooting

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A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence. The United States'

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Pulse Nightclub Massacre

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.

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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

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