We need comprehensive gun reform to address mass shootings, domestic shootings, accidental shootings and homicides.
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"We need comprehensive gun reform to address mass shootings, domestic shootings, accidental shootings and homicides," he said.
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Several of the shootings, including a suspected murder-suicide, were domestic disputes, the police said, rather than the sort of shootings that have plagued Chicago: gang shootings over disputes — and over previous gang shootings.
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Collectively, we have been affected by urban and rural gun violence domestic violence, hate crimes, suicide, mass shootings, unsolved shootings, and unintentional shootings.
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The show has featured shootings before — mass shootings, college campus shootings, coworkers watching each other get shot on both small and massive scales.
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It happened in a couple of police shootings, school shootings recently.
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Sunday's Fresno shootings came after two other mass shootings in California.
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People have lumped together mass shootings of families—domestic by definition—with public mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas, or school shootings.
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Mass shootings are horrifying beyond words, but suicide by firearm kills many more people in our country than mass shootings, or even gang shootings.
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The shootings occurred after a peaceful protest against the police-involved shootings.
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"I can't think of a study that's as encompassing in all the different metrics — suicide, homicides, accidental shootings, mass shootings, police shootings," Mr. Webster said.
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You see something similar in discussions around school shootings, wherein gun control skeptics are as eager to declare that gang-related shootings in school are not real school shootings as they are to embrace Fox's definition in which gang-related mass shootings are real mass shootings — and vice versa for gun control supporters.
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It is figures like these that gun control advocates unsurprisingly latch onto when they demand stricter gun laws in the wake of mass school shootings, mass nightclub shootings, mass outdoor concert shootings, mass military base shootings, and the like.
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At the very least, we're not counting a lot of shootings as shootings.
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How many mass murders are committed by non-Muslims, mass shootings, school shootings?
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Street violence is self-perpetuating that way: Shootings beget shootings that beget more gunmen.
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All 50 shootings in the 2016 and 2017 shootings were men acting by themselves.
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Many of these shootings involved petty disputes similar to those behind many street shootings.
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Three shootings in two days A day earlier, two other shootings made national news.
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School shootings and mass shootings in general are still a gut-wrenching reality, and there have already been 32 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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Look, for instance, at the Google search trends for "shootings" — all the major spikes are related to mass or school shootings: It's intuitive that mass shootings get more attention.
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While obviously tragic, the toddler shootings are a small part of all shootings in America.
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In some ways, the military shootings reflect the larger issue of mass shootings in America.
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There were 214 shootings on Fridays, compared to 143 shootings on Wednesdays, and 214 on Tuesdays.
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That's down from 2011, when the city experienced 617 non-fatal shootings and 93 fatal shootings.
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"These laws can modestly reduce shootings overall" and reduce the number and severity of mass shootings.
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Schildkraut, who wasn't involved with this study, researches mass shootings, school shootings and school lockdown drills.
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Nine weeks into the year and 12 school shootings CNN's calculation of the number of school shootings include shootings on school property that involve one or more victims and other factors.
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Already this year, there have been at least five school shootings, and 41 mass shootings in total.
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Furthermore, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them; they're not school shootings or other public massacres.
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The incidents include 22017 shootings apiece in Chicago and Jacksonville, Florida; seven shootings in New York City; six shootings each in Baltimore and Buffalo, New York; and five each in Cleveland and Indianapolis.
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However, random mass shootings are relatively rare, with few American-style shootings in schools or other public areas.
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And, again, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them — they're not school shootings or dance-floor massacres.
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Go deeper: What the deadliest mass shootings have in common The deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history
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In 2017, there were 277 non-fatal shootings and 63 fatal shootings, according to the city of Oakland.
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Including the shootings this weekend, 251 mass shootings have now occurred in the U.S. so far in 2019.
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In the late '90s I thought the Columbine shootings were an anomaly, but several other school shootings followed.
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And, again, most "mass shootings" aren't how we imagine them — they're not school shootings or dance floor massacres.
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In comparison, 244% of millennials who took the survey stress about school shootings and 237% about mass shootings.
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric AdamsA leader in the effort to make J'ouvert more safe Having a safe J'ouvert the same weekend you have five shootings in Queens, three shootings in the Bronx, several shootings in Harlem, and several other shootings in Brooklyn that are nowhere near J'ouvert is not a victory.
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Having studied other school shootings, mass shootings, and suicides, I know that the majority of them were also preventable.
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All three shootings, like the vast majority of shootings in Baltimore, happened outside, for the entire community to witness.
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Focusing on the perpetrators of school shootings and other mass shootings has been a longstanding practice in the media.
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Only shootings where at least four people were killed were considered mass shootings, for the purposes of the report.
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Spikes after mass shootings Support for stricter gun laws tends to spike in the immediate aftermath of mass shootings.
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Rather, the shootings are part of an overall -- and alarming -- increase in mass shootings within the country at large.
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He also said that data around mass shootings shows that from 1994 to 2004 there were fewer mass shootings.
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Throughout the province, mass shootings are rare: Only five shootings in British Columbia have killed more than four people.
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In particular, victims of assault and battery or shootings were much more likely to be involved in future shootings.
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There were no mass shootings for 18 years afterward, but they make up a small fraction of all shootings.
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Mass shootings are still relatively rare, but they're becoming deadlierIt's fair to say that mass shootings are still rare occurrences.
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The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton — like so many mass shootings before them — overwhelm us in their horror.
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Potential mass shootings arrests Authorities in three states say they stopped three potential mass shootings over the past few days.
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Similarly, the Columbine shootings and their underground fanbases online fostered an outline for what later school shootings "should" look like.
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Since the two shootings, a spate of men have been arrested across the country for threatening to carry out mass shootings.
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The shootings came amid a protest over the fatal police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota this week.
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ABC15 reported that evidence collected during a string of Phoenix freeway shootings helped identify Saucedo as a suspect in the shootings.
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In my work, I have seen shootings in Colombia, riots in Venezuela, shootings in El Salvador, and the violence in Mexico.
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"There have been almost 100 school shootings this year alone so far and over 300 mass shootings so far," says Hockley.
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Following shootings this week in San Francisco and Alexandria, The Carmichael Show delayed an episode about mass shootings and their effects.
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The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, has counted 255 mass shootings in 2019 so far.
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Foiled mass shootings The aftershocks of this month's mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso continue to reverberate in frightening ways.
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Officer shootings In the last seven days, there have been several shootings of police spanning five states, from California to Pennsylvania.
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After bearing witness to so many police shootings and now two recent shootings of police, we can no longer claim that these shootings are the errant result of an abhorrent police department or that violence ever advances social justice.
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The deputy's false claim followed three mass shootings in the United States this month, and several arrests of people threatening mass shootings.
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Mother Jones, which tracks mass shootings that meet specific criteria, counts 46 mass shootings since 153, when the assault weapons ban expired.
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It's not just the school shootings or the mass shootings, it's the daily gun violence in city centers and in rural communities.
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If they end up having a lot of bad shootings or unjustifiable shootings, that they would pay themselves and not the taxpayer.
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Voters may soon toughen up America's weakest police shootings law Voters may soon toughen up America's weakest police shootings law Not guilty.
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Senate Democrats want the chamber's health committee to hold a hearing on the causes and remedies of mass shootings, including school shootings.
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I don't do well with shootings—I don't think anyone should do well with shootings—but no, I said to my son.
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Last year, there were more than 50,000 shootings in the United States, and more than 25 percent of those shootings were fatal.
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School Shootings Have Already Killed Dozens in 2018 The shootings have become so common that most people likely don't remember them all.
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About 75% of Gen Z reported mass shootings as a significant source of stress, and 72% said the same about school shootings.
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As for Gen Xers and baby boomers, 235% expressed concern over mass shootings, and about the same percentage stress over school shootings.
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The prevalence of mass shootings –– over 1,100 people have died in mass shootings since 2009 –– has galvanized support for stricter gun control.
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The claim that survivors of mass shootings are "crisis actors" is a common conspiracy theory that sometimes appears after high-profile shootings.
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In the meantime, shootings in the Windy City have reached a four-year low, with 1,210 shootings and 85033 homicides in the first seven months of the year after 1,363 shootings and 321 homicides in the same period last year.
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The incident followed a number of mass shootings and also a spate of arrests of people threatening mass shootings in the United States.
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Assault weapons were used in only six of these shootings, but those shootings killed and injured more people than the other nine combined.
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The shootings, which stretch from the 1950s to 230, range from high-profile mass shootings to episodes that most Americans never hear about.
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Shooting-wise, police recorded 11 shootings as of March 27 compared with 335 shootings the same period in 2015, a 91 percent increase.
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This would prepare teachers to proactively prevent school shootings and support students who deal with trauma including shootings, natural and human created disasters.
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By Monday morning, after these latest shootings, President Donald Trump, along with other Republican politicians, had linked violent video games to mass shootings.
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QUESTION: The United States has had a rash of mass shootings over the years — 42 shootings in the United States this year alone.
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In interviews, people attending the event described their horror at how pervasive school shootings, and the dread of more school shootings, had become.
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California had 138 deadly police-involved shootings in 2016, and 22014 deadly shootings in 223, according to data compiled by The Washington Post.
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Here's what this year's mass shootings look like according to three different tracking organizations, as of December 18, 2017: And while the numbers of shootings differ between organizations, a steep increase in mass shootings, shooting deaths, and shooting injuries appear across the board.
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Chicago's violent streak of shootings continued, as five people were killed and at least 12 others wounded by shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, police said, bringing the week's total number of fatal shootings to 893 so far, with another 81 wounded.
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Atlanta (four shootings, four dead, four injured) and Chicago (nine shootings, one dead, 13 injured) suffered an especially tragic toll during the sit-in.
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The images from the two mass shootings this past weekend — in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio — were, as with all mass shootings, devastating.
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The more, I hate to say, "routine shootings," but the more numerous shootings that spiral out of control often begin with a domestic dispute.
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Since only three motives lie behind school shootings like the ones we've seen recently, I sadly expect to see more shootings in the future.
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Recently, things have taken a serious turn, with videos of shootings, protests, beatings and more shootings served up in our feeds, often without warning.
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Gutfeld on media coverage of school shootings Politicians and celebrities offer strategies to prevent school shootings in wake of Santa Fe High School shooting.
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Police shootings on the whole are rare, but experts say nonfatal shootings are just as important to understanding police violence as fatal encounters are.
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The magazine has attempted to compile all mass shootings from 1982 to 2019, but not all of those shootings are attributable to assault weapons.
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Deadliest shootings As President, Trump has now witnessed two of the five deadliest shootings in modern US history -- all within the last 35 days.
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I have been deeply affected by both the police shootings of young black men and the Dallas and Baton Rouge shootings of police officers.
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We don't have anything of much that's cool, but, to us, enabling mass shootings so people can protect themselves from mass shootings seems dumb.
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But Mother Jones's database of mass shootings shows there are plenty of shootings where the shooter just had an array of semi-automatic handguns.
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Those figures over-reported so-called hit shootings by four and under-reported non-hit shootings by 49, according to the inspector general's report.
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Since the 22019 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than 2,100 mass shootings have happened in America, and they are tearing us apart.
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Since then, the Washington Post has tracked police shootings annually and found that roughly 1,000 people have been killed in police shootings each year.
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Mount Sinai Hospital, close to where one of the shootings took place, temporarily stopped accepting patients because it was at capacity following the shootings.
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Gang-related shootings fell to 412 in 2016, from 560 the year before, according to the data, which tracked shootings and murders through Dec.
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The police officers involved in these shootings will still need to go to trial and be convicted before they're truly punished for the shootings.
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Years of covering shootings, being called as an expert talking head on shootings, writing and thinking about shootings have left Cullen with a diagnosis of "vicarious traumatization," he writes, and twice in the last seven years he's found himself sobbing and immobilized for days.
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So it's possible that being born after the Columbine High School shootings and experiencing mass shootings as a routine event will change how they think.
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More people = more shooters = more shootings The reason mass shootings are occurring with greater frequency can be partly explained by our growing population, Klarevas said.
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The moms we interviewed ahead are running for office because they want to make school shootings — and all mass shootings — a thing of the past.
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However, this effect, in theory, does little to mitigate the risk of, say, mass shootings inside clubs or domestic violence–related mass shootings in homes.
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Another series of shootings last year put Phoenix on edge, but Williams said there's no evidence to connect Saucedo to the I-10 Freeway Shootings.
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In my coverage of these shootings, I've always focused on solutions through studies and policy ideas that would tamp down on the number of shootings.
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The deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have brought the United States to a total of 251 mass shootings in 2019 alone.
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What can the growing frequency of high-fatality mass shootings, with four of the biggest mass shootings in five decades happening in 85033, tells us?
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By failing to act, Congress remains complicit in the carnage brought on by mass shootings, suicides and the daily drumbeat of shootings in our cities.
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In 2019, there have been more mass shootings than days: Sunday was the 216th day of the year and there had been 251 mass shootings.
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That amounts to four deadly shootings per 100,000 residents, eight times the rate of deadly police shootings in New York City during the same period.
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If a police department knows the number, location and time of shootings, it can test crime-control measures: Did the night basketball program reduce shootings?
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Other Resources: How to Buy a Gun in 16 Countries How Australia, Canada and Other Countries Responded to Mass Shootings What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings?
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"Mental health definitely has a role in gun shootings and that's mostly people who are depressed and kill themselves — however, not mass shootings," she said.
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Since 85033, the number of mass-shootings has ballooned by 183 percent and the number of deaths in mass-shootings rocketed up by 239 percent.
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As horrific as mass shootings and school shootings are, Americans are much less likely to be killed in a murder than they have been in generations.
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Go deeper: Special report: Global threats multiple Three decades of school shootings The deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history Second Parkland shooting survivor commits suicide
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Police shootings of Hispanics - which went under-reported So far this year, 155 Hispanics have been killed in police shootings, according to a Washington Post database.
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Mass shootings get so much attention that we often forget that there are daily shootings on the streets of many of our cities across the country.
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"Where you see the effect of the large-capacity magazine is the actual number of victims you're seeing from these shootings, especially mass shootings," he said.
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This weekend of shootings bears the unfortunate — but increasingly familiar — distinction of joining the ranks of the deadliest American mass shootings in the last 60 years.
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The number of mass shootings has risen dramatically in the last few decades, with many of the deadliest shootings taking place in the last few years.
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We ask questions in the wake of shootings like Parkland and Newtown, but we don't ask in the wake of the shootings in places like Chicago.
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That includes not just school shootings but shootings in general — of which America has far, far more of than any other developed nation in the world.
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"One thing our data did seem to illustrate were that hospital shootings generally involve targeted victims, unlike the shootings in movie theaters and concerts," she said.
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The surge in gun companies' stocks following mass shootings were generally more pronounced after shootings that took place when President Obama was in the Oval Office.
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Go deeper: Barr outlines mass shootings prevention plan Where 2020 Democrats stand on gun control Gen Zers are expressing their frustration with school shootings on TikTok
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Video games were mentioned in 6.8 percent of news articles about school shootings with white perpetrators, compared with 0.5 percent for school shootings with black perpetrators.
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CNN's calculation of the number of school shootings include shootings on school property, that involve one of more victims, includes domestic violence incidents, and other factors.
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That has at least to do with the fact that the media covered these shootings to a much greater extent than they have other recent shootings.
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And just a few hours after the Orlando shootings, I noticed Internet postings calling the shootings a probable "false flag" operation, orchestrated by the US government.
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In terms of school shootings, however, the state ranks 34th per capita when including the District of Columbia, with 3.16 school shootings per one million residents.
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In that context, it becomes clear that mass shootings, of all sorts, are the problem, and that mass shootings inspired by Islamic terrorism are a subset.
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The Chicago Tribune, which has been tracking shooting statistics, reported earlier this month that shootings in the city have declined, with 533 fewer shootings as of Aug.
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And no amount of sit-ins, NRA rallies, mass shootings, accidental shootings, or incidents where armed citizens stopped crimes in their tracks is going to break it.
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And no amount of sit-ins, NRA rallies, mass shootings, accidental shootings, or incidents where armed citizens stopped crimes in their tracks are going to break it.
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You can use this data to analyze officers, break down police shootings city by city, or just read through the 1,813 narratives of police shootings we collected.
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St. Louis had the highest per capita rate of police shootings among the 50 departments we analyzed but provided scant details for shootings that happened after 2014.
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Raul Garcia, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, says the freeway shootings case -- which is not linked to the Maryvale street shootings -- is still open.
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While the dataset included mass shootings, and many notable mass shootings took place at schools, the majority of these events did not take place on school campuses.
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In some cities, fatal shootings were as little as 28500 percent of all officer-involved shootings; in others, they were more than half of all firearm discharges.
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The FBI said it saw a 70% surge in tips warning of mass shootings and other attacks just in the week after the back-to-back shootings.
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California shootings Four people were killed and at least 10 wounded in a series of shootings in Northern California, but it could have been worse than that.
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From September 2007 to September 2014, IPRA reported 344 shootings in which someone was struck by a bullet and 291 shootings in which no one was struck.
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And there's a distinction between incidents of domestic violence that also become mass shootings, and mass shootings by people with a history of domestic abuse or misogyny.
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Numb to mass shootings It now takes not one but two or more mass shootings to jar the country into new calls for action on gun control.
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Still, criminologists say there are small zones where shootings remain a stubborn problem, particularly in public housing complexes, where one in five New York City shootings happen.
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University of Chicago criminal justice researcher John Roman argued that the increase in murders may be driven by shooters using higher-caliber weapons — a claim backed by recent reports — while a rise in shootings in Chicago could be driven by a contagion of shootings leading to retaliatory shootings.
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When the researchers plotted school shootings over time, they saw that there's been an overall increase from 2007 to 2013, driven by a jump in shootings at colleges.
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Since those high-profile shootings in which a combined 31 people were killed, police have made at least 28 arrests over threats to commit mass shootings, CNN reported.
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We used the shooting data to focus on shootings as never before, and by 1998, the N.Y.P.D. had pushed down shootings by more than 3,500 incidents a year.
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Since the deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month, law enforcement agencies have arrested several men for threatening to carry out mass shootings.
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In the last 24 years, there have been 2000 school shootings, resulting in 250 victims -- a huge jump from an estimated 270 school shootings between 153 and 215.
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But the latest round of shootings attracted relatively little popular attention, especially when compared to the flurry of media coverage hoisted on domestic mass shootings earlier this month.
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The evidence suggests that curtailing access to guns would not only prevent some mass shootings but also help curtail other gun deaths, including homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings.
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" Fielder said he did not see the decline in police shootings as a success story for Detroit, pointing out, "We experience way more violence than just police shootings.
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But when you want to explain why America sees so many of these mass shootings in general, none of these factors in individual shootings give a satisfying answer.
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Although place names like Pulse, Sandy Hook or Columbine have come to symbolize the horror of high-profile mass shootings, many everyday shootings happen out of the spotlight.
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And so its very important that while we uplift school shootings and mass shootings, we're also lifting up the work that has been happening for years and years.
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The shootings came during a community demonstration in the wake of two fatal shootings this week of black men by police, one in Louisiana and one in Minnesota.
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The evidence suggests that curtailing access to guns would not only prevent some mass shootings, but also help curtail other gun deaths, including homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings.
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"This atrocious act and the many mass shootings that came before are beyond heartbreaking -- they are societal failures," he said in a statement after the Thousand Oaks shootings.
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Both countries' buybacks, like proposals in the United States, focused public outrage at mass shootings, and both targeted the kind of weapons used in those shootings: assault rifles.
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In a time where mass shootings have become tragically more commonplace, the recent string of shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton have shaken us to our core.
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Police sketches were circulated based on statements from a small number of witnesses to the shootings, but they proved of little use since the shootings occurred at night.
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As of Monday in the Nuristan case, no one had been charged or arrested in the fatal shootings of the couple or the shootings of the police officers.
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Although 2017 was one of the worst years for mass shootings in the last decade -- with 346 shootings total; 61,454 reported incidents; and 15,20173 gun-related homicides -- 2018 is clearly not off to a great start with already 30 reported mass shootings in its first 45 days of the year.
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University of Chicago criminal justice researcher John Roman argued that the increase in murders in particular may be driven by shooters using higher-caliber weapons — a claim backed by recent reports — while a rise in shootings in Chicago could be driven by a contagion of shootings leading to retaliatory shootings.
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These shootings make the local news, but they are both so private and so sadly routine that they rarely get the massive national attention that rarer public shootings do.
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Shootings are rare enough that they're difficult to study statistically in this context, beyond the hypothesis that a significant reduction in violence and complaints should lead to fewer shootings.
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Despite outrage over high-profile shootings caught on video, Chicago police shootings last year dropped to 28 from an average of 49 a year over the previous seven years.
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The recent shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio were the latest in a long line of mass shootings that have plagued the United States in recent years.
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Police shootings have come under greater scrutiny nationwide, including in California, after videos raised questions about the legitimacy of some shootings and other video evidence has helped exonerate officers.
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During a 2016 interview with BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac, the 40-year-old rapper railed against how Americans "are numb" to shootings, particularly of shootings involving children.
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Foster said as part of the lesson he discussed with the students how both politicians and the NRA respond to mass shootings, and how "we lose attention" following shootings.
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Chief Beck appeared to try and divorce the police shootings in Los Angeles from the shootings of unarmed black men, often caught on video, that have roiled the nation.
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To the Editor: Re "School Shootings Leave a Long Trail of Trauma" (front page, March 29): The "long trail of trauma" sadly doesn't just affect survivors of school shootings.
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It's not unwarranted -- CNN examined 22018 years of shootings on K-210 campuses and found two sobering truths: School shootings are increasing, and no type of community is spared.
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As Americans process last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, CNN held a town hall on gun violence Wednesday night with survivors of shootings, politicians and others.
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"It seems to be common for a lot of these shootings, in fact almost all of the shootings, is the mental state of the people," the Iowa Republican said.
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Shootings inside churches and schools tend to get all the media attention, but the vast majority of mass shootings don't get much media attention as a gun control issue.
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There is some evidence that mass shootings produce a copycat effect: Mass shootings are more common in the weeks immediately following a previous mass shooting than at other times.
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This, however, has not stopped Trump from referring to mental illness as the root cause of mass shootings, something he also did following the Dayton and El Paso shootings.
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Most shootings — 22012 — took place in the morning.
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GVA's definition differs from other definitions of mass shootings, which may require that four or more people are killed or exclude certain shootings, such as gang-related and domestic events.
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After last week's horrific terrorist attack in New Zealand, early commentary focused on how the shootings at two Christchurch shootings seemed to be purpose-built for spreading on social media.
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Because of the sheer preponderance of mass shootings that have occurred in just over half a decade, shootings and their perpetrators now occupy a deservedly oversized space in America's conscience.
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The country is still reeling from the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, as well as fatal shootings of five officers patrolling an otherwise peaceful protest in Dallas.
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After 2016 turned out to be the deadliest year for two decades, with 63 murders and 3,550 shootings, the following year was less bloody, with 650 murders and 2,785 shootings.
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Hours later, after chaos erupted in Dallas and five police officers were killed in sniper shootings that began during protests stemming from the Minnesota and Louisiana shootings, he promised justice.
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The deadliest shootings happen at these schools CNN examined 10 years of shootings at K-12 schools across the US. The numbers we found reveal some sobering and surprising truths.
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Though some have questioned the impact of background checks, researchers wanted to see whether states with them have fewer shootings, as well as to determine other trends around school shootings.
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Cesario's team relied on databases of 2015 police shootings from the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers and gathered information on the officers involved in those shootings, including their race.
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A Vice deep-dive into data on police-involved shootings at America's largest police departments showed that shootings declined by an average of 29% when the federal government got involved.
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" But he also said clearly that the shootings are not anomalies: "[R]egardless of the outcome of such investigations, what's clear is that these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents.
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As of June 16, the city had had 20 more shootings than over the same period last year, including 16 additional shootings over the four-week period that ended Sunday.
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These fatal shootings continue to disproportionately affect black Americans, who make up 13 percent of the US population but account for roughly 25 percent of those killed in police shootings.
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Police violence, suicides, unintentional shootings of children, domestic crimes and all related events leave behind the same pain as the mass shootings that are more likely to catch our attention.
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It shouldn't be surprising given the United States' recent tragic history with mass shootings — there have been at least 1,000 mass shootings in the US since Sandy Hook in 2012.
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We've said nothing of the fraying of Europe's fabric with Brexit, or the flaring racial tensions in the US, with police shootings of black men and reprisal shootings of officers.
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These shootings make the local news, but they are both so private and so sadly routine that they almost never get the massive national attention that rarer public shootings do.
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Read more:Some Colorado schools are getting buckets and kitty litter so students can go to the bathroom during lockdowns if there's an active shooterTo figure out whether to reopen after shootings, some schools are calling schools that had shootings before them for adviceTIME Magazine cover features parents of children killed in school shootings
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Read more:Hundreds of teachers are preparing for 'Train a Teacher Day,' where they'll learn how to shoot gunsStates with stricter gun control and higher mental health expenditure have fewer school shootings, study findsTo figure out whether to reopen after shootings, some schools are calling schools that had shootings before them for advice
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Chicago, which has already suffered 17 mass shootings this year—the most of any US city—is the poster child of small-scale mass shootings: nine such attacks in Chicago left four injured and zero dead, and in total all of the mass shootings in the city have killed six and injured 69.
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Eastmond, after surviving a mass shooting, stepped up to remind us that while "high-profile" mass shootings are a small fraction of all shootings, gun violence affects minority communities every day.
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Since those high-profile shootings earlier this month in which a combined 294 people were killed, police have made at least 279 arrests over threats to commit mass shootings, reports CNN.
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Even though these everyday shootings rarely come up in the national debate about gun control, the evidence is actually strongest for stricter gun laws preventing the more common shootings, including suicides.
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Researchers said that there had been a statistically significant increase of assault rifle use in mass shootings in the last five years, which has also coincided with shootings becoming more deadly.
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The new law wasn't precipitated by any particular event; there hadn't been any mass campus shootings in the state, nor any recent high-profile college shootings anywhere else in the country.
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The new End Family Fire initiative will work to reduce the number of improperly stored or misused guns found in homes that can lead to unintentional shootings, intentional shootings or suicide.
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Most Americans don't blame schools for shootings, according to the poll, though the parents of school-age children are more likely than other adults to blame shootings on the schools themselves.
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After the shootings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the hashtags #HandsupDontShoot and #ICantBreathe spread far and wide, arguably bringing more media attention to the shootings than when they first happened.
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In February 2018, in the wake of mass shootings in Florida, President Trump met with lawmakers about ways to reduce mass shootings and pointed to violence in films as a cause.
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In the wake of these two shootings, doctors brought up gun safety in only half of their appointments, down from about 70% prior to the shootings, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
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About one-third of the mass shootings occurred in a public place, such as the shootings at a Walmart store in Texas and at a bar in Ohio in one weekend.
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Last year there were two other fatal shootings within a block of the couple's apartment, and over all the 40th Precinct logged 31 shootings, more than most areas of the city.
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She notes that in the vast majority of shootings she's studied, the perpetrators plan to die themselves; in the vast majority of shootings, the perpetrators also leave notes outlining their plans.
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This was a week of bombs, shootings — and blame.
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" Protestors have been chanting: "Everyday shootings are everyday problems.
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If a school was exploring ways to increase the physical safety of a particular building, Riedman hoped they could use to the data to determine where shootings were most likely to occur, and then make targeted investments Per their data, there were 669 shootings outside on school grounds, compared to 558 shootings inside school buildings.
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"I tend to think that if there was a cause it might have been anger at the police over all the shootings and all the long litany of police shootings," he said.
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But counting shootings separately has not in any way changed reported crime, since the shootings themselves and other attacks with guns are all reported as aggravated assaults to the Uniform Crime Report.
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Doing otherwise, the president said, would condemn the United States to continue suffering through mass shootings, suicides, gang violence, domestic abuse and accidental shootings that have killed tens of thousands of Americans.
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Even though these more typical shootings rarely come up in the national debate about gun control, the evidence is actually strongest for stricter gun laws preventing the more common shootings, including suicides.
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The daughter of a woman killed in the Sandy Hook mass shootings is calling on Donald Trump to stop thanking a right-wing conspiracy theorist who claims the shootings were a hoax.
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Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health call that definition too broad, since it includes domestic, gang, and drug-related shootings that may not be considered mass shootings in layman's terms.
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In Chicago, where violence and police shootings have angered the city, officials say that as of April, murders were up 54 percent from last year, and shootings were up by 70 percent.
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Szymoniak said the decision to specifically design a school with so many elements specifically to be prepared for a mass shootings inside the building was prompted by the frequency of school shootings.
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Amid the national debate over gun control and school shootings, Deputy Gaskill was heralded for his swift response and hailed as an example of how officers on campus can quickly end shootings.
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Do you agree with the writer's proposal to lower the voting age to 16 so that those most vulnerable to school shootings have a say in how those shootings are best prevented?
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Government health experts were told not to post anything related to mental health, violence or mass shootings without prior approval following this month's El Paso and Dayton shootings, the Washington Post reports.
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They need to be able to depict the motivations of the lonely broken people that commit these shootings without flashing a giant disclaimer at the bottom of the screen denouncing mass shootings.
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All of this—the trainings, the alarm, the PSAs that emphasize the trauma of school shootings—elides the fact that school shootings are much more rare than other kinds of gun violence.
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But after the ban lapsed in 2004, the numbers shot up again—an astonishing 183 percent increase in high-fatality mass shootings and a 239 percent increase in deaths during such shootings.
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Nevertheless, Watts says that with a growing numbers of mass shootings in their short lifetimes and eight school shootings already in 2018, today's younger generation is energized to fight the status quo.
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A 2015 analysis of fatal police shootings by the Washington Post found that out of thousands of shootings since 153, only 54 officers had been charged, and just 11 of those convicted.
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These shootings, albeit more granular, paint a tragic picture of just how common gun violence is in the United States — and how it claims thousands of lives annually, outside of mass shootings.
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Even though school shootings are still relatively uncommon, 2018 has already recorded the highest number of school shootings since Columbine — a total of 17 — according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
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Related: Cops Say Chicago Fourth Grader Lured to Alley Was Executed Over Father's Alleged Gang Ties Chicago's violent streak of shootings continued, as five people were killed and at least 228 others wounded by shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, police said, bringing the week's total number of fatal shootings to 230 so far, with another 250 wounded.
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Over the weekend, after the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, Tyson tweeted that the number of people killed in the shootings paled in comparison to deaths due to things like car accidents and that our "emotions respond to spectacle more than data": In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 1483 people to mass shootings.
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Meanwhile, there are no easy answers to stopping mass shootings by trying to fix mental health: It's hard to ignore that many perpetrators of mass shootings have had a history of mental illness.
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While mass shootings on the scale of those in Sutherland Springs, Texas; Parkland, Florida; and Las Vegas dominate media coverage, experts point out that smaller shootings, often at businesses, are far more prevalent.
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Meanwhile, both in terms of their settings (mostly drive-bys on the street and night spot or party shootings) and timing (mostly on the weekend), America's mass shootings this week were depressingly routine.
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Here's a map of the number of mass shootings since Sandy Hook, after controlling for population, in each state: Since around 2015, the number of mass shootings has averaged around one a day.
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Clinton calls shootings 'intolerable' Clinton has commented throughout the week on the shootings of Scott and and Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man who was killed by police last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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FOLLOWING CHICAGO SHOOTINGS, POLICE ANNOUNCE NEW EFFORTS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE Several other shootings have occurred in the city since Friday, leaving multiple people injured and at least two dead, Fox 32 Chicago reported.
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My evidence may be anecdotal, but I challenge the reader to argue that officer-involved shootings of white Americans get as much coverage when compared to shootings of people of color by police.
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A group of corporate employees launched a petition this week tIn the aftermath of the shootings, Walmart stores across the country have dealt with numerous potential threats amid heightened fears around mass shootings.
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Teachers were already up against rising hate crimes in schools and mass shootings, and the fall semester comes on the heels of mass shootings in Gilroy, California, El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
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Because there is no universal definition of mass shootings or central database tracking them, this list is based primarily on media reports and may not be complete or representative of all mass shootings.
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In a speech shortly after two mass shootings last summer, Trump proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty as a response to the shootings.
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There was no apparent link among the killing of Detective Benjamin Marconi and the three other shootings, in which officers were wounded, and officials cautioned that many questions about the shootings remain unanswered.
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In one of those police districts — an area on the city's West Side with the largest concentration of shootings over the Memorial Day weekend in 2016 – no shootings were reported this holiday weekend.
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Concealed carry in schools: Trump Wednesday floated the idea of arming teachers in an effort to prevent future school shootings during a listening session on school shootings at the White House on Wednesday.
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They claim our definition of shootings in a public place that don't involve another crime as arbitrary, and they don't even mention that we had used the FBI's traditional definition for such shootings.
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While Democrats believe the Orlando shootings show the need for their measure, the man identified as carrying out the shootings was not on a terrorist watch list at the time of the carnage.
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U.S. home to a third of the world's mass shootings
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Republicans who after mass shootings regularly exonerate our perverse gun
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Watch: Obama's Responses to 16 Mass Shootings in Eight Years
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Watch President Obama react to mass shootings over the years.
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Active shootings have become all too common in American life.
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The evidence certainly suggests that the shootings were hate crimes.
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After sharing information, authorities now believe both shootings are connected.
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It makes sense that Americans glaze over most mass shootings.
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How do you teach clubs to prepare for shootings specifically?
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In areas with high gun violence, many shootings go unreported.
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Police said last month that Dalton admitted to the shootings.
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The investigation into the shootings stalled, with no hard leads.
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Snoop's video takes on hot button issues including police shootings.
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Read INSIDER's full coverage of the New Zealand shootings here.
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Chicago has been plagued by shootings over the past year.
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By 2015, shootings had dropped to 1,130 (1, 339 victims).
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"We know what situations lead to police shootings," he says.
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No other country has a similar epidemic of school shootings.
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No word on if it is connected to previous shootings.
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Sadly, gun stocks rising following deadly shootings is nothing new.
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Security officials cited shootings and bombs threats outside the stadium.
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At the core of so many of these mass shootings.
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Why are we not pushing the buttons on police shootings?
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The burden of unsolved shootings falls disproportionately on minority communities.
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In recent years we've had something like 703 mass shootings.
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He wasn't somebody that ... I was covering fires and shootings.
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The shootings occurred near a synagogue and a kebab shop.
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A total of three people were killed in the shootings.
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Even now, these shootings continue to disproportionately affect black Americans.
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After the mass shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
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"Obviously mass shootings aren't going to do it," he said.
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The police chief became emotional as he described the shootings.
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And four people were killed in shootings over the weekend.
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There were armed guards at all of these mass shootings.
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"We live in a world of mass shootings," he argues.
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Shootings will not happen again - a big & very inexpensive deterrent.
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Lashings of sex, bomb blasts, shootings and betrayals duly followed.
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Unfortunately, we had way too many of these school shootings.
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"It has become so common," he said of school shootings.
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He denounced the shootings last month in San Bernardino, Calif.
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Tensions occasionally flare over shootings of people crossing the border.
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It's worse now than it was before the Dallas shootings.
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In smaller departments, police shootings are flat or down slightly.
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Selby said the overwhelming majority of police shootings are justified.
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German's motives for the shootings are not clear, he added.
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Mass shootings in the United States are becoming frighteningly commonplace.
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Mass shootings are so scary because they seem so unpredictable.
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It also reignited the fervent nationwide conversation about police shootings.
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In 2015 Yale University completed a study on Chicago shootings.
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He said he was upset about the recent police shootings.
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Both shootings will be investigated internally, according to The Star.
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Trump has ordered flags be lowered after other mass shootings.
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A separate, smaller group protested police shootings of black people.
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Advisor Ken Blackwell said that marriage equality causes mass shootings.
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I have seen other mass shootings but nothing like this.
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No arrests have been made in the shootings, Johnson said.
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Watch: 49 people killed in shootings at New Zealand mosques
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They argue that mental illness causes mass shootings, not guns.
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Under those terms, mass shootings don't appear to be increasing.
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At least 49 lives have been claimed by the shootings.
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Related: Obama's Responses to 16 Mass Shootings in Eight Years
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Mass shootings are not normal, but neither are they inevitable.
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Go deeper: The deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history.
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Watch President Obama respond to mass shootings over the years.
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His father is a sociologist who specializes in mass shootings.
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This is true for shootings in the US and elsewhere.
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But citizen reportage from within school shootings, live, is new.
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"We should study what causes the pattern" of mass shootings.
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The shootings are still under investigation, according to the paper.
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Other data suggests this applies to mass shootings as well.
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Members of the media have reported on specific shootings differently.
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In the case of school shootings, that is school personnel.
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The 39 domestic violence shootings, in contrast, mainly involved whites.
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The shootings represent the deadliest attacks in the country's history.
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Everyone wants to do something to stop mass public shootings.
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Why Trump, why mass shootings, why student debt, why anything?
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" And Erick Erickson wrote, "There will be more church shootings.
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Congress, he argued last year, simply can't stop mass shootings.
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Law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about shootings at theaters.
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"Mass shootings are now happening like clockwork in America," Sen.
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The number of mass shootings has increased since it expired.
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It's not only mass shootings that kill thousands every year.
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Former student Nikolas Cruz has been charged in the shootings.
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The shootings started in Neal's neighborhood shortly before 8 a.m.
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Mass shootings are a more violent version of this issue.
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Workers identifying red flags can prevent shootings before they occur.
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Since Columbine, mass shootings have become increasingly common in America.
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After the Orlando shootings, it was, 'I told you so.
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Much is made of the body count of police shootings.
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Walsh acknowledged that mass shootings have been a problem recently.
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In 2015, 381 victims of fatal police shootings were Black.
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J.C. said the shootings did not give them any pause.
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Trump called for unity in a statement following the shootings.
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There have been 1,477 injuries from mass shootings since January.
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Two mass shootings occurred in a single weekend in August.
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But we also must confront mass shootings' other ingredient: men.
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Authorities have said the shootings appear to be racially motivated.
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Did protests over police shootings cause a rise in murders?
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There are thousands of physically uninjured survivors of mass shootings.
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That's probably why we lead the nation in accidental shootings.
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I guess school shootings will end when America wants to.
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What if there are incidents of violent crime, like shootings?
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Sacramento, that video followed probably 22, 25 shootings in Sacramento.
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But the study found no racial differences in police shootings.
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Israel's deflections and buck passing started immediately after the shootings.
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The church's pastor, Steve Josoma, picked which shootings to commemorate.
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Only a handful of those shootings are by female officers.
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Related: Preventing Mass Shootings Like the Vegas Strip Attack 2.
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The motive behind the shootings is unknown, the police said.
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During that time, she said, she witnessed shootings and bombings.
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People knew of the injustices of other police shootings here.
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Since then, there have been more than 1,600 mass shootings.
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Stabbings, shootings, torture and beheadings are routine at the Met.
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"Many in legacy media love mass shootings," Ms. Loesch said.
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The shootings rattled a nation where such episodes are rare.
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My school has some safety precautions to prevent possible shootings.
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" His corollary: "In mass shootings, there are no unwounded victims.
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The city supports 18 Cure Violence programs to reduce shootings.
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But he pays close attention to news of mass shootings.
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THREE mass shootings have been planned and executed from 8chan.
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Much of it amplified by shootings in Arkansas and Tulsa.
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Shootings are common, as are bloody battles between warring cartels.
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Since Newtown, there have been more than 1,600 mass shootings.
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Power line strikes and illegal shootings commonly cause premature death.
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The shootings happened two days and about five miles apart.
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Here are some notable previous fatal shootings at churches. Sept.
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Several notorious shootings — including the one in Sutherland Springs, Tex.
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Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings?
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Deadly police shootings are an unfortunate staple of American journalism.
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Flashback from 2017: Mental health: Not just about mass shootings
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He confessed to the shootings, according to an arrest affidavit.
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Renick's is the second arrest in the string of shootings.
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But the emerging American tradition of school shootings has continued.
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It ranks among the deadliest school shootings in Texas history.
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Neither would necessarily have prevented any of the recent shootings.
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Today, the shootings in Binghamton and Alabama are rarely mentioned.
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The shootings happened within a two to three block radius.
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Four of the shootings occurred in the past eight days.
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We were downtown when the Tree of Life shootings happened.
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Manhattan accounts for 21 of the 24 additional shootings citywide.
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Polling, popular opinion, unabated mass shootings — none of it matters.
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Trump repeatedly pledged to work to prevent future school shootings.
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It cited "egregious" delays in the investigations of such shootings.
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And mass shootings are just a fraction of the problem.
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But the recent shootings have ratcheted up pressure on Republicans.
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The point is to see a reduction in all shootings.
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Recent mass shootings have revived demands for meaningful gun control.
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That forces victims of mass shootings to seek compensation elsewhere.
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WASHINGTON — After the nation's worst mass shootings, in Newtown, Conn.
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Those episodes have become known as the Phoenix Freeway Shootings.
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These shootings must be a turning point for our city.
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His outreach on preventing shootings is consistent with that platform.
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That's an average of about eight mass shootings a week.
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There have been eight school shootings so far in 2018.
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Connecting police shootings with community health, however, is more complicated.
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Our security approach to stopping school shootings is not working.
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This weekend, it happened again: more mass shootings in America.
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Meanwhile, Congress has taken no significant action on mass shootings.
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It has come under new scrutiny following the Florida shootings.
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He said that mass shootings are a uniquely American problem.
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Sadly, mass shootings are the usual gun policy conversation starter.
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The number of mass shootings in France is quite small.
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The NRA wants politicians to blame mental health after shootings.
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However, they are unlikely to end massacres or school shootings.
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Most of Chicago's 3,451 shootings this year were gang related.
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Recent mass shootings including the February massacre in Parkland, Fla.
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Mr. Dalton had spoken to officers shortly after the shootings.
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Study this graphic of mass shootings in the United States.
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That, and a fear of theater shootings, like in Aurora.
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And before those shootings, there was Laquan McDonald in Chicago.
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The shootings offered another reminder of America's unique gun problem.
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By now, mass shootings have become almost routine in America.
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Most recently, they've blamed mental health issues for mass shootings.
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We must refuse to accept shootings in schools as normal.
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Gun sales typically surge on such concerns after mass shootings.
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But in fact, most "mass shootings" are all too predictable.
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Mass shootings like the Wednesday morning attack that wounded Rep.
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Since then, there have been more than 240,103 mass shootings.
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"1st action of new Congress will be to attack Dems who protested Republican inaction on mass shootings," wrote Keith Ellison (D-MN), a contender for DNC chair, "but NO action to stop mass shootings."
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Strikingly, 80 percent of the respondents said they believed that the media coverage of mass shootings can lead to copycat attacks, and nearly 70 percent said they found media coverage of shootings overly sensational.
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Long apparently visited Dallas after the shootings there, posting a YouTube video July 10 in which he said he was in the Texas city and spoke of the recent protests and officer-involved shootings.
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After Parkland and other mass shootings, Giffords's political director Isabelle James said there was a noticeable spike in candidates going further than "thoughts and prayers" and instead calling for policies to prevent mass shootings.
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Part of the rising pressure: Two of the top five deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history — in Las Vegas and Texas — happened in 2017, and death tolls from mass shootings are rising. Sen.
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If you want to learn more about police shootings in your community, check whether a department has an open data portal or if a local news outlet already publishes a list of police shootings.
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But as each week that passes, and senseless stabbings, shootings in malls, exploding bombs on city streets become more prevalent in a 24-hour news cycle, we will see more shootings by law enforcement.
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Since the El Paso and Dayton shootings left 31 people dead on August 3 and 4, at least 28 people across the US have been arrested and accused of plotting or threatening mass shootings.
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The spate of threats and arrests after the El Paso and Dayton shootings is typical, experts said, because mass shootings typically occur in clusters where copycats try to replicate the violence of their predecessors.
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In fact, out of the 111 mass shootings analyzed by researcher Louis Klarevas in his 2016 book, Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings, an armed civilian never — not once — intervened to end it.
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And after several mass shootings during his presidency, he's floated his support for expanded background checks — an idea he promoted again this month immediately following the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
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After two mass shootings in early August left 30 dead in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas in less than 24 hours, the US had officially seen more mass shootings than days in 2019.
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There had been many mass shootings and even school shootings before, but Columbine, which took place in 1999 at a public high school in Littleton, Colorado, redefined the school shooting as a media spectacle.
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It was one of six shootings during the holiday weekend that left 10 wounded and one dead in northern Brooklyn, where police have been wrestling to contain a steep rise in murders and shootings.
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The distinction matters, because while shootings that kill at least four people aren't rising, mass shootings in a public place — like the massacres in Charleston, San Bernardino, and Aurora, Colorado — appear to be increasing.
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While horrific mass shootings catch our attention and dominate news coverage, there remains a constant drumbeat of death across America every day in the form of shootings, including both murders and suicides by gun.
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An Overlooked Danger: School Shootings After Hours Since mid-August, gunfire has erupted more than 20 times at or near school sporting events around the country, more shootings than took place during school hours.
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Additionally, there are concerns about potential under-reporting of data in the Uniform Crime Reporting System, and the study only looked at mass shootings, not shootings involved in other crimes or overall crime rates.
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But talks were revived after a summer of mass shootings that saw 31 people killed and four dozen more injured across shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in back-to-back days.
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Using notes as a warning sign raises a fair concern over false positives: Most people who leave notes don't carry out mass shootings, even if most people who carry out mass shootings leave notes.
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Similarly, Peterson says, a medical rather than police intervention for troubled young people who plan mass shootings could prove effective without devolving into Minority Report-esque surveillance efforts to predict shootings before they happen.
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Dan Patrick (R) on Sunday said the slew of mass shootings in the U.S. should not be attributed to guns, instead pointing to the people who use them as the reason behind the shootings.
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Shootings at airports have accounted for a tiny fraction of the all-too-commonplace mass shootings in the U.S., but have garnered high visibility due to the extensive security that surrounds the aviation system globally.
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One of the more memorable aspects of former President Barack Obama's time in office were his speeches after mass shootings, speeches that became a bit of a morbid ritual, given how regularly the shootings occur.
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One perhaps less obvious danger of covering mass shootings so extensively is that it might overemphasize their role in gun violence in America, furthering the false impression that mass shootings are what's driving the epidemic.
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The effect of mass shootings Researchers noted that after the shootings in Las Vegas in 2017 and in Parkland in 2018, residents were asking about gun safety less and less each week after both incidents.
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Fortune detailed five key statistics last year that illustrated the close relationship between mass shootings and domestic violence in the U.S.: In more than half of mass shootings, the shooter killed a partner or relative.
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As the investigation into that killing gathered more evidence, Saucedo was charged in May with an additional 26 felony counts -- including multiple murders and drive-by shootings -- in connection with the street shootings, authorities said.
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Most of the shootings happened in poor neighborhoods on the West and South Sides where gangs are entrenched, Johnson said, adding that so far there had been no arrests in any of the weekend shootings.
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According to research from Northeastern University there have been a total of eight shootings classified as mass shootings (killing at least four people) at K-85033 schools in the United States from 1996 to now.
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According to a database maintained by The Washington Post, there have been 730 police shootings so far this year, putting 2017 on track to match or surpass the number of shootings in 2015 and 2016.
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The prevalence of mass shooting events on the weekend so far this year is striking: 14 of the 22 mass shootings in 2016 (and 10 of 11 shootings this month) have taken place on weekends.
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So as school shootings and mass shootings continue to fuel Democratic calls for gun control, the decade-old vote has put Sanders in an odd position he's not used to: the center of liberal criticisms.
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And Mr. Lankford, in an email, said countries with high suicide rates tended to have low rates of mass shootings — the opposite of what you would expect if mental health problems correlated with mass shootings.
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Republican President Donald Trump In a speech shortly after the August shootings, Trump proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty as a response to the shootings.
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"I have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine," Booker said.
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"With school funding being cut yearly and the number of mass shootings increasing, it's important to recognize that the root of the problem is much deeper than just stopping all mass shootings immediately," she said.
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On the left, the best means to end school shootings and mass shootings of any kind would be to massively limit access to guns and the number of guns any American can own, full stop.
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Since then, there have been more mass shootings around the nation.
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"We can't simply pray for victims of mass shootings," Fairfax said.
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He was questioned in connection with the shootings, but not charged.
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America's response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern.
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A handgun was also found in the vicinity of the shootings.
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The 73 shootings have spanned the nation, from California to Massachusetts.
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New Zealand is not known for gun violence or mass shootings.
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This is not to say that all police shootings are unjustified.
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No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters.
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After recent school shootings in Florida and near Houston, Texas Gov.
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They were rerouted along Highway 101 in response to the shootings.
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Media companies cover mass shootings extensively, and VICE is no exception.
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Trump aides deny his rhetoric was a cause of the shootings.
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There have been more than 1,500 mass shootings since Sandy Hook.
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Compared to last year, homicide and nonfatal shootings are both down.
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Earlier statistics — even on fatal shootings — are hard to come by.
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Many on the list have been killed in drive-by shootings.
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Overall shootings, however, are down this year compared with last year.
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Locals recalled at least six shootings on the avenue this summer.
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Waller touted that shootings in 2018 were down from last year.
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In particular, YouTube was lambasted for spreading misinformation during mass shootings.
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The best evidence on preventing mass shootings, meanwhile, comes from Australia.
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Jail mugshot of Kalamazoo shootings suspect Jason Brian Dalton, 45 pic.twitter.
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By September, both were again involved in shootings, the police said.
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The police on Saturday offered few additional details about the shootings.
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She is the author of Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities.
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Bennett's post received mixed reactions in light of recent school shootings.
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Days later, suicide bombings and shootings in Tehran killed 17 people.
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They normally don't talk about school shootings when they happen elsewhere.
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After the Dallas shootings, he urged the country to come together.
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The shootings have fueled debate about how to keep campuses safe.
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In the 1980s there was a wave of post-office shootings.
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Here are the responses from prominent Republican lawmakers to the shootings.
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According to court documents, Andreychenko mentioned the recent shootings to officers.
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He believes that few of the cross-border shootings were justified.
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What matters here is preventing another one of these mass shootings.
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So far in 2016, such shootings exceed the number of days.
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Erran Morad and advocates for arming children to combat school shootings.
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Generally, if police are charged in shootings, they're very rarely convicted.
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Plagued with bombings, shootings, and kidnappings, Baghdad was just too dangerous.
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Houston has recently quadrupled the number of detectives handling nonfatal shootings.
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Over the next 12 months, shootings skyrocketed by 68%, overwhelming detectives.
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The shootings over the weekend echoed previous attacks on the police.
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Don't get me wrong: all mass shootings are abhorrent and reprehensible.
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There are between 900 and 1,000 police-involved shootings every year.
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Other witnesses linked him to shootings, robberies, assaults and drug dealing.
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High-profile celebrities expressed their thoughts on the pair of shootings.
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But mass shootings have changed the right-wing calculus on guns.
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Five of those six shootings took place between 2015 and 2018.
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Bystanders like Aldridge have been caught in the crossfire of shootings.
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Protests against the police shootings were held throughout major US cities.
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When terrifying shootings happen in our schools, we don't feel safe.
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Police shootings rise again, and Mr Whent goes on the defensive.
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The big picture: The death tolls from mass shootings are rising.
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In 10 cases last year, prosecutors had video of the shootings.
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The shootings have raised new questions about violence being disseminated online.
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For now, police still don't have a motive for the shootings.
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Other conference attendees expressed a particularly fatalistic view of mass shootings.
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"They specifically mentioned the Orlando shootings," Walsh said in an email.
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After Columbine there have been 20 years of continued mass shootings.
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And where gun laws are weaker, there are more mass shootings.
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After the shootings that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif.
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Combat school shootings by banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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Investigators have not identified a motive for the shootings, Issac said.
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Go deeper: School shootings have united Gen Z and young millennials
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"It had nothing to do with the recent shootings," she said.
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Robert F. Kennedy and again in 1998 following several teen shootings.
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Shootings had been down 30 percent in Chicago compared to 2017.
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And the third is penetrating injuries—shootings, stabbings, and the like.
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Even before the shootings, Casale says he'd felt American society regressing.
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Instead I was sent out to cover shootings, stabbings and fires.
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The U.S. has seen 71 mass shootings so far in 2017.
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This is a familiar refrain from other stories of mass shootings.
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Will the president deal with the issue of police-involved shootings?
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Other shootings took place at a block party and a funeral.
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People wounded in mass shootings, and victims' families, emerge deeply traumatized.
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"We know that we've stopped multiple shootings and suicides," she said.
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Police-involved shootings are another sign that the system has unraveled.
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Other officer shootings Two officers in Jacksonville were also injured Friday.
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Could some of those 85033 shootings since 2012 have been prevented?
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But the impact of CAP laws on mass shootings is unclear.
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North, however, blamed a culture of violence for the recent shootings.
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There were several high-profile mass shootings during that time period.
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These weapons also tend to be used in the deadliest shootings.
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Since then, the rate of mass shootings has continued to rise.
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These shootings, by and large, are not a middle-class phenomenon.
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Masada Armour created the backpack in response to recent school shootings.
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Mass shootings, murders, suicides, fallen trees, car accidents — you name it.
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He killed her in their Newtown home before the school shootings.
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Trump has also called for arming educators to stop future shootings.
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The buyback also may have reduced the rate of mass shootings.
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In 2018, there have been 18 school shootings in 45 days.
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Support for stricter gun laws often spikes temporarily after mass shootings.
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It is unclear if the two shootings are connected. http://bit.
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Dalton also was accused of injuring two people during the shootings.
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On Monday, prosecutors charged a suspect with carrying out those shootings.
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In fact, most gun deaths aren't even homicides or accidental shootings.
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However, Greene is white, as were both victims in Wednesday's shootings.
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Most of those homicides are shootings, according to the respective databases.
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Instead, it examined a larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones.
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Yet, no other country experiences the same number of mass shootings.
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As mass shootings have become more common, public opinion has evolved.
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The Chicago police department reports 2,242 shootings so far in 5503.
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These were some of the shootings: Incident 1: 12:20 a.m.
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But Drake cautions against over-interpreting the increase in church shootings.
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Seven other mass shootings happened in the US over that weekend.
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We almost have become immune to the horror of mass shootings.
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"There have been many shootings lately," said local resident Miro Lopez.
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Perpetrators of mass shootings have disproportionately troubling histories of abusing women.
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Weapons buy-back programs have been successful in reducing mass shootings.
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The Guardian (UK): "Trump accused of fuelling hate after deadly shootings"
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Gun shares and school shootings have long had a complicated connection.
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Typically, mass shootings and terrorist acts bolster sales of assault rifles.
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Their weapons were smuggled onto the Temple Mount before the shootings.
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Orlando and American Mass Shootings The mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.
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Mass shootings are only a fraction of our gun violence epidemic.
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Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the shootings.
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Police shootings, he said, are not to be judged in hindsight.
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The tragic mass shootings we have just endured – in Gilroy, Calif.
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And, even in close-range shootings, they only have 37% success.
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Some tech executives spoke out in the aftermath of the shootings.
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The shootings shook the town, about 40 miles southwest of Greenville.
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Mass shootings, rather than temper gun sales, only feed the hunger.
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On Friday, there were "just" six shootings, with none being fatal.
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The shootings occurred at Nathan Phillips Square, adjacent to City Hall.
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Arming teachers to respond to school shootings also makes little sense.
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These laws help reduce both unintentional shootings and youth firearm suicides.
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It's extremely difficult to track school shootings in the United States.
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We've known about school shootings since we were five years old.
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There have been hundreds of other mass shootings since Virginia Tech.
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Smith railed against the lack of progress in preventing mass shootings.
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Beyond Roanoke, the week's three other American shootings were less sensational.
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Sparking terrorism fears, the shootings closed the airport for several hours.
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Everytown notes that domestic violence is closely tied to mass shootings.
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That night, Dalton allegedly picked up Uber passengers in between shootings.
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Denmark has been on high alert since the February 2015 shootings.
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Mass shootings do sometimes happen in countries with strict gun laws.
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Mr. Fryer's evidence on shootings came from 10 cities and counties.
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What if they had condemned only the shootings by the police?
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Police did not know the motive for the shootings, he added.
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How one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history unfolded.
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Shootings punctuated the days of stalemate, leaving wounded on both sides.
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We asked four survivors of mass shootings what that is like.
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And crimes, such as murders and shootings, are continuing to decline.
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But those shootings make up only a tiny fraction of homicides.
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Relatively few suspects are ever brought to trial for mass shootings.
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Mass shootings are central to the gun's narrative, and its popularity.
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A series of mass shootings captured headlines in the following years.
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There have been too many shootings and nothing has been done.
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Activists in Los Angeles say police shootings are still distressingly numerous.
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He does not expect news outlets to forgo covering school shootings.
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Just briefed by Attorney General Barr about the shootings in Texas.
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What does it say about school shootings in the United States?
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Mass shootings seem only to further galvanise people along party lines.
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Or, are there other factors that may cause increased mass shootings?
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Some individual shootings have appeared politically motivated, at least in part.
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Since then, there have been at least 239 school shootings nationwide.
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A local holds bullet casings allegedly from the shootings on Sunday.
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Over the past seven days, America witnessed another three mass shootings.
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That stopped in 216, and so did the drive-by shootings.
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In individual shootings, these all of course can play a role.
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But mass shootings are rare, and Tuesday's attack left Brazilians shocked.
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The fundamental problem is that mass shootings are traumatizing, terrifying events.
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He is exasperated by the police shootings of unarmed black Americans.
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Small town America is not immune from mass shootings, he added.
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For some, however, the shootings have soured them on living there.
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The lawsuits have come after shootings in Orlando; in Newtown, Conn.
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The fatal shootings of two paralegals on Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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President Trump endorsed arming teachers to protect students from school shootings.
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But you know what else makes people numb to mass shootings?
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It's gotten new momentum following recent mass shootings, per the Post.
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Go deeper: 2020 Democrats drive the national conversation after mass shootings
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Walmart stores were the site of two shootings in recent weeks.
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Active-shooter training is not the panacea to end school shootings.
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Still, even states with the laws have not avoided such shootings.
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The FBI generally refers to mass shootings as active shooter incidents.
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Most people who commit gun violence are not committing mass shootings.
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Unless public engagement replaces our collective passivity, mass shootings will continue.
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These excuses don't fly in an era of regular mass shootings.
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"This seems to be the age of mass shootings," Densley said.
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I'm concerned about mass shootings, which are receiving much-deserved attention.
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I first heard about the shootings while investigating something totally different.
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The police department found both shootings to have been procedurally sound.
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Best told reporters no information connects the shootings at this point.
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We typically see such increased support temporarily after mass public shootings.
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Shootings and stabbings are given their fair share of air time.
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About a third of shootings and murders occurred between 10 p.m.
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Out of 44 observed shootings, 15 had at least one fatality.
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Two young men were later arrested in connection with the shootings.
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Friday's mass shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch changed everything.
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Koerber learned about the shootings from a friend in New Zealand.
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Survivors of the separate shootings at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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There was no immediate information about a motive for the shootings.
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It's become, unfortunately, a science behind these mass shootings and disasters.
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Since May 31, 26 mass shootings have left 126 people dead.
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Although high-profile mass shootings like the one in Parkland, Fla.
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She became an activist, calling attention to police shootings across Belém.
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Fifteen shootings this year have resulted in more than four deaths.
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Some posts also appeared to praise officers in police-involved shootings.
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Were you in New York during the Son of Sam shootings?
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What happens to family members and other witnesses of police shootings?
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When it comes to mass shootings, there isn't one accepted definition.
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Georgia already ranks second in total college-related shootings with 13.
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The weapon used in the shootings was a handgun, police said.
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At least 18 other school shootings have already happened this year.
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That was true until the mass shootings in San Bernardino, Calif.
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In 173 weeks this year, there have been 45 school shootings.
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This comes amid growing concern over mass shootings around the country.
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In America, the death toll has come largely from mass shootings.
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Sergeant Parizek said that no motive for the shootings was known.
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They believe about six are left following the shootings, Conn said.
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Since 1993, US military installments have had more than 133 shootings.
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Criminal charges of police officers involved in fatal shootings are rare.
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One 2018 study found that shootings hurt black men's mental health.
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"How about doing something about the mass shootings?" he asked me.
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Everytown has been tracking shootings in schools and universities since 2013.
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Police said there is no evidence to link the two shootings.
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Everytown has been tracking shootings in schools and universities since 225.
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In other words, mass shootings are not the norm in France.
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He has also suggested arming teachers to prevent future school shootings.
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We are not doing all we can to stop mass shootings.
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The ban is unlikely to mean fewer shootings or even fatalities.
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"After Orlando, it never stopped," Zanis said of the mass shootings.
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Republicans have touted the measures as their response to mass shootings.
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The bottom line: 53 people died from mass shootings in August.
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"School shootings were not a regular occurrence back then," she said.
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Both shootings triggered large protests and heated calls for gun reform.
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Both shootings were carried out by teens with legally purchased guns.
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That may not make up for mistrials in egregious police shootings.
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America is an outlier when it comes to mass shootings, too.
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In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings — thousands since January 1.
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Remember the victims of color that face mass shootings every day.
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I was used to seeing drive-by shootings by my house.
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There is only one way to prevent mass shootings in schools.
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The study cataloged recent road rage disputes, bar fights, police shootings of armed civilians, and everyday vitriol that turned into shootings in right-to-carry states, to suggest mechanisms that explain how the increases might happen.
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Unlike the response to previous shootings, Trump promised action during an emotional listening session Wednesday — which aired live on all major TV networks for about an hour — with parents, educators, and students who have experienced shootings.
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" Informed of the shootings by his staff after the speech, he went to the scene, where he called the shootings a tragedy, saying the Jungle has been "unmanageable and out of control for almost two decades.
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Of the thousands of fatal police shootings over the last decade, at least 21 have led to convictions, according to a BuzzFeed News review of media reports and a Washington Post database of recent police shootings.
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And over the past few years, several police accounts of shootings or killings, such as the police shootings of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati and Laquan McDonald in Chicago, have fallen apart when interrogated with video evidence.
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Using Mother Jones's definition of a mass shooting — which uses a narrow framework to try to identify the shootings people usually picture when they hear "mass shooting" — 71 deaths in 2016 were due to mass shootings.
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When you're looking at all these mass shootings, everyone, especially those of us in law enforcement have a passion to protect people and save lives, what are we going to do to stop these mass shootings?
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A wave of police shootings of black men more than 15 years ago prompted residents to form the Black Action Defense Committee, and the government to form the Special Investigations Unit to look into the shootings.
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If we want to finally stem the tide of school shootings, we cannot let the Secret Service effort become just a report on the shelf—or Parkland become another footnote in the history of school shootings.
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The shootings were the 31st and 32nd mass shootings in the US in 2019, according to The New York Times, which defines a mass shooting as a single shooting incident that kills three or more people.
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People have a greater chance of dying in mass shootings if they're at school or place of business According to FBI data from 2013, incidents in schools and businesses represent 7 out of 10 active shootings.
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Columbine's influence is so great that the study even found that fame-seeking as a motive for mass shootings was largely confined to the American West: 70% of fame-seeking shootings took place in the region.
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According to criminologists Jillian Peterson and James Densley, there have been 6900 mass public shootings in the U.S. since 2628, with gun violence actually having decreased since the 28503s with the exception of mass school shootings.
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There have been more than 1,800 mass shootings in the US since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, and no serious legislative effort that could conceivably reduce the number of mass shootings in the near future.
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Police unions are particularly notorious in this regard; many defend their worst members after shootings, blame the victims of such shootings, and even claim that "blue racism" against police officers is as bad as actual racism.
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I believe the reason why these relentless shootings and murders do not shake the consciousness of the public in the way that mass shootings do is that young African American boys are most often the victim.
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Both mass shootings and terrorism pose potential risks when traveling in the US, its advisory says, adding that it is "easy" to gain possession of firearms and therefore more common to see shootings and sporadic attacks.
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She points out that the rate of mass shootings has grown with the modern market's access to these rapid-fire weapons, more than doubling in the most recent decade to 50 mass shootings and 437 deaths.
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Shootings nationwide by police officers over the last few years, and the use of force by its agents, including several cross-border shootings, have thrust the Border Patrol into the national debate around law enforcement reform.
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According to Everytown for Gun Safety, there have been 35 more mass shootings, 155 more shootings on school grounds and at least 58,000 more gun-related deaths since Alyssa and her classmates and teachers were murdered.
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According to Everytown for Gun Safety, there have been 35 more mass shootings, 155 more shootings on school grounds and at least 58,000 more gun-related deaths since Alyssa and her classmates and teachers were murdered.
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In the nearly 19 years since Columbine rocked America to its core, the country has seen so many more mass shootings that the attack isn't even among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
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Studies of school shootings by the FBI and U.S. Secret Service concluded that in many cases there were reports of threats that were ignored — but in other cases, by investigating reported threats, they averted potential shootings.
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By examining records of more than 4,000 officer-involved shootings — including both fatal and nonfatal incidents — from the 403 largest local police departments, we found that shootings of unarmed citizens are far more common than anyone realized.
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In the past 10 years, assault-style rifles have been used in 14 public mass shootings, Reuters reported, Half of those shootings have occurred since last June, according to a data base maintained by Mother Jones magazine.
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It might be a challenging one to solve, since there could be many different causes that underlie the range of school shootings — from targeted, non-fatal attacks to mass shootings with multiple fatalities, the Associated Press reports.
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The gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety analyzed more than 150 mass shootings in seven years, and found that the shooter's family members or intimate partners were victims in 54 percent of mass shootings. 4.
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K.G., when you see the facts and you hear that mass shootings are in decline, I can understand why that wouldn&apost matter because if you replace mass shootings with terror, it wouldn&apost matter to me.
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Only a few incidents fall under the indiscriminate rampage category, with which we often associate mass shootings in the US. VICE's crime editor Matt Taylor explains the mass shooting tracker In other words: mass shootings are diverse.
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Issue: School shootings Book: "Perennial" by Kelly Forsythe (August 2018) The irony about the current debate about school shootings is that the adults making decisions about gun control forgot what it's like to be in high school.
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For example, an analysis in 2015 found that the number of fatal shootings by police in Norway in the past nine years was less than the number of fatal shootings by US police officers in one day.
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Of the 409 shootings by police officers investigated since 2007 by the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), which is charged with looking into serious claims of misconduct, only two of the shootings were found to be unjustified.
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Follman argues that his version defines mass shootings in the same way many Americans think of them, and that it's preferable for researchers to use a narrow definition to better gauge the common causes of mass shootings.
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As TV shows tackle gun violence, initiating discussions around shootings and gun ownership, they do so in a world where real-life shootings seem very likely to occur between an episode's wrap date and its air date.
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But because the original narrative around the shootings can simply turn out to be wrong as we get more evidence, there's a risk that attaching calls for reform too much to individual shootings and killings can backfire.
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The findings suggest that Americans' views on guns have changed as mass shootings have gotten more national media coverage, such as the shootings last year in San Bernardino, California, and at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
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While mass shootings involving high-powered guns and high death tolls have claimed an outsize portion of the nation's collective grief — and its headlines — street shootings like the one that killed Delmonte Johnson are far more common.
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They have expanded the conversation about gun violence beyond mass shootings and school shootings, and have forced the public to reckon with the fact that people of color and lower-income communities disproportionately suffer from gun violence.
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The shootings also highlighted the challenges confronting Facebook after the live-streaming service was introduced for all users in April and a series of fatal shootings followed — a development the company is still struggling to cope with.
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Montalvo, the acting police chief, said shootings can happen in any neighborhood.
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Shootings and bombings stand out as particularly scary because they appear random.
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Witnesses said both defendants were elsewhere at the time of the shootings.
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The United States has no national database tracking fatal shootings by police.
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Cory Booker unveiled his proposal to address gun violence and mass shootings.
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There were emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts, and mass shootings at home.
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"I've never known a world where there aren't mass shootings," she said.
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Most of those shootings won't attract the widespread national attention seen Friday.
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On Christmas weekend, 22016 people were killed, and police investigated 21 shootings.
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There were seven shootings reported at the park prior to Beaudette's killing.
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Police said the shootings occurred at three locations in the Wausau area.
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Tuesday's shootings, which stretched across seven crime scenes, began about 8 a.m.
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Research studies have shown no link between violent video games and shootings.
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Bill O'Reilly is politicizing mass shootings by saying they shouldn't be politicized.
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Not necessarily to this extent but shootings and death all the time.
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The shootings began at about 5pm local time in nearby Newton, Kansas.
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"The Pulse shootings shook me to the core," he tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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There are a lot of killings, and shootings, and stuff right now.
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Thousands of miles away in India, officials expressed shock at the shootings.
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It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country's history.
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Shootings though, are rare in Japan, according to the National Police Agency.
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The shootings were reportedly captured on a school surveillance camera, he said.
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The shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, killed 31 people.
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This is not to say his family is connected to the shootings.
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Friday may mark one of the deadliest school shootings in Canadian history.
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The shootings aren't accidents, according to gun violence prevention activist Jonathan Hutson.
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We've seen 1,424 mass shootings in this country since that horrific day.
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But it remains unclear how California sanctuary would have prevented Wednesday's shootings.
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Tributes are paid to the victims of the mosque shootings in Christchurch.
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But the shootings aren't accidents, gun violence prevention activist Jonathan Hutson said.
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López Obrador made similar comments after the shootings in Guerrero and Michoacán.
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More specifics on the shootings were not immediately available late on Sunday.
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Then there are debates over what sorts of shootings should be counted.
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Still, by almost any definition, the toll from mass shootings is rising.
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No more fear, no more hurt, no more shootings, no more GUNS.
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He had been watching Awlaki videos in the weeks before the shootings.
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After the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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There have been 31 shootings with three or more deaths in 2019.
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The latest mass shootings in America elicited more pleas for gun controls.
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Two other mass shootings occurred this weekend in El Paso and Dayton.
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Did you ever get close to her family following the shootings/kidnapping?
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And I watched the school shootings, in particular, which you pointed out.
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Police shootings have always happened, but they were dismissed as isolated incidents.
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Almost 60 were injured in shootings, of which two dozen were children.
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Go deeper: Bodyslams, bombs and shootings: Anti-media violence in Trump's America
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First shooting at high school All the shootings happened in parking lots.
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Of course, America isn't the only country to have experienced mass shootings.
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Push notifications would tell you about nearby robberies, shootings, and other crimes.
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" Damon also noted that, "Obviously mass shootings aren't going to do it.
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He was also up against attempted murder charges for shootings of civilians.
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Three other shootings -- in Tennessee, Missouri and Georgia -- have also endangered cops.
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These were also the first European mass shootings in almost three weeks.
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Phoenix shootings Police are sorting out a really tragic story in Phoenix.
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People know who's going to these shootings and who's targeting different people.
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The more recent police shootings have marked a shift in such emphasis.
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Two mass shootings in the last week have resulted in 31 deaths.
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But she stumbled in two high-profile fatal shootings of police officers.
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Some members had more tangible ideas about how to prevent future shootings.
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Spectacular mass shootings are not at the center of America's gun problem.
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"The Pulse shootings shook me to the core," he recently told PEOPLE.
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Those numbers place Detroit 16th in police shootings among large American cities.
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The result: Where there are more guns, there are more mass shootings.
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But shootings with illegal guns have been rising since the mid-2000s.
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"The shootings appear to have been ambush-style attacks," the statement said.
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Trump called on Congress to seek "real, bipartisan solutions" to mass shootings.
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Chicago officials want longer prison sentences for violent offenders involved in shootings.
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"Shootings will not happen again — a big & very inexpensive deterrent," he tweeted.
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Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was allegedly training children to commit school shootings.
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Dalton allegedly picked up riders and pocketed fares in between the shootings.
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In Canada, there are no available statistics on police shootings by race.
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He said the terminated deputies were being made scapegoats for the shootings.
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Roof and Slager committed the shootings long before Trump was elected president.
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The suspect was stopped for speeding on Tuesday morning before the shootings.
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William Pridemore, the school's dean, said the recent shootings motivated the push.
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The country has been on heightened security alert since the Christchurch shootings.
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It remains one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country's history.
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There were just nine Chicago-area expressway shootings in 220 and 2012.
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Bennett has represented families in police-involved shootings in the Minneapolis area.
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In Australia, for example, four mass shootings occurred between 1987 and 1996.
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It's become an increasingly common refrain in the wake of mass shootings.
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That's a debate that has continued to crop up after mass shootings.
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And in between the shootings, he apparently picked up passengers for Uber.
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In the past three years, shootings and deaths have been back up.
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Bartholomew tells PEOPLE that after the shootings, he called Valentine's cell phone.
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After thousands of US mass shootings, however, this has all become routine.
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Police still believe all of the shootings were carried out at random.
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Buried in the 2,000-plus pages are several items that address shootings.
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There are hundreds of mass shootings every year in the United States.
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The show tackled everything from drug use to rape to school shootings.
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Patrick has also called for arming teachers to prevent future school shootings.
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The caveat: Reporting on non-fatal school shootings is not always available.
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Domestic violence shootings were nearly as infrequent, but were among the deadliest.
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Over all, two-thirds of shootings took place outdoors, endangering innocent people.
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More schoolchildren have died in school shootings than in active combat zones.
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He doesn't think the legislation would have necessarily prevented recent mass shootings.
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Books and newspaper articles about mass shootings were found at his home.
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In the wake of these shootings, several police departments have changed tactics.
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These shootings won't stop unless we move seamlessly from tragedy to action.
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"This is also a mental illness problem," Trump said of the shootings.
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Police say all officer-involved shootings in the district are automatically investigated.
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"School shootings, teen suicide: The hidden consequences of social media" https://t.
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Investigators learned Osborne had researched mass shootings at schools online, reports WYFF.
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The shootings occurred at a court in Chanthaburi province, east of Bangkok.
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We have such s— gun control laws and there's mass shootings daily.
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A longstanding French friend witnessed some of the shootings while out walking.
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"Shootings and stabbings directed at whom?" the lead prosecutor, Andrew Warshawer, asked.
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And, sadly, mass shootings have become part of growing up in America.
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Villagers near the Freeport mine were evacuated after a string of shootings.
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The number of shootings has dropped 15 percent to 1,277 this year.
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Others argue that stopping mass shootings before they happen is almost impossible.
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The shootings occurred when officers tried to arrest him, the police said.
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When asked about recent police shootings of black people in Tulsa, Okla.
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Mass shootings are just a fraction of the gun deaths each year.
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Mass shootings can escalate anxiety and even trigger post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The string of shootings had in fact consumed most of his time.
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School shootings have unfortunately become a common occurrence in the United States.
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Most were killed in stabbings, though there have also been several shootings.
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He killed Nancy Lanza in their Newtown home before the school shootings.
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"Hardening advocates acknowledge that mass upgrades would not eliminate shootings," AP notes.
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Instead, he told Reuters that restricting gun rights would not stop shootings.
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And, recent mass shootings have sparked new concerns among fast-food employees.
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Shootings UPDATE: Suspect IN CUSTODY in Aspen Hill area: Eulalio Tordil, 28500.
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The gunman said he had been provoked by the recent police shootings.
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Schweikert's state of Arizona has its own tragic history of lawmaker shootings.
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Today, teachers and children are preparing for something entirely different: mass shootings.
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But researchers have found no link between mass shootings and video games.
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Already in 2019, there have been 17 mass shootings, by ABC's count.
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Here are 18 of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
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Americans have learned to feel helpless in the face of mass shootings.
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Two recent in-store shootings have claimed more than 20 lives combined.
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"As president, how would you address unintentional shootings by children?" she asked.
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AR-85033s have been used in multiple mass shootings in recent years.
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Homicides and shootings are up nearly 50 percent in Chicago this year.
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It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
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As public shootings became commonplace, doctors started paying more attention to them.
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EDT: President Trump delivered remarks on the mass shootings over the weekend.
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But the Columbine shooting changed the way police respond to active shootings.
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Referencing last year's mass shootings at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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I let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings.
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"I did notice pushback, after school shootings became widely reported," Allie said.
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In some ways, the focus on mass shootings misses the bigger picture.
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Augustus is the latest victim of several officer-involved shootings in Chicago.
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Mass shootings are tragedies and a source of political contention in America.
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Mass shootings happen almost daily in America, but this one was different.
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Last weekend's shootings, McGoey stresses, ought to be viewed as an anomaly.
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It stands as one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott has taken to Twitter to condemn the shootings.
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Immediately following school shootings, Fetters writes, facilities close down for obvious reasons.
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You were saying that in Sacramento, there were a ton of shootings.
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There have been 136 mass shootings, or just under one a day.
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What would your administration do to reduce gun violence and mass shootings?
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I'm obsessed that there have been 85033 school shootings since Sandy Hook.
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"After the explosion, we heard shootings, and then more explosions," he said.
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The prevalence of school shootings and domestic terrorism has also shaped them.
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But how — and even whether — ShotSpotter also reduces shootings hasn't been proved.
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This tally represents the most mass shootings in a week this year.
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Mesa's police shootings roughly correspond with rates from other large police departments.
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Prosecutors often face difficulty securing convictions against police officers involved in shootings.
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No one else has this many mass shootings or as many guns.
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Mind In the wake of the horrific school shootings in Parkland, Fla.
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Until the Parkland shootings, at which point she could no longer forget.
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The connection between partner abuse and mass shootings has become almost commonplace.
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Over the years, she has been broken anew by other school shootings.
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Over years of mass shootings, from a university campus in Huntsville, Ala.
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Correction: This post originally included an overestimate of the 2019 mass shootings.
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How does it feel to keep reporting mass shootings as you do?
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The panic of mass shootings has ramped up efforts to secure schools.
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Implicit bias has been cited in police shootings of unarmed black men.
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Meanwhile, Europe suffered two mass shootings over the same period of time.
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There have been several high-profile shootings in Colorado in recent years.
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Last year, the church's nativity scene sought to highlight America's deadliest shootings.
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Still, the restrictions might make a difference in mass shootings in particular.
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In Elkhart, one of the shootings led to a lawsuit and settlement.
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Would more of these shootings be prevented if more people had guns?
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But portraying mass shootings as a mental health problem misrepresents the evidence.
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In the latest of at least 11 shootings at schools since Jan.
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The answer to preventing future school shootings is more guns, not less.
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Eight of the shootings during that period had three or more victims.
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It raises hard questions about the links between domestic violence and shootings.
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He said he knew many people who were present at both shootings.
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Ryland Ward, Joann's 5-year-old son, was wounded in the shootings.
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There was a pocket history of mass shootings that got cut, too.
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Mass shootings have often brought communities together to process grief and shock.
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"Just all the shootings going on, it's really been concerning," she said.
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However, the mass shootings last weekend shook our nation to its core.
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Still, prosecutors emphasized that Kollie did not intentionally help plan the shootings.
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Sales have increased 200% since the mass shootings last weekend, Curran said.
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After the El Paso shootings, O'Rourke issued arguably the most sweeping proposal.
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He also accused Trump of bearing "some responsibility" for the mass shootings.
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The best case for gun control is about suicide, not mass shootings.
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It's one of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in US history. 2.
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"We also see revenge killing," she said, referring to some workplace shootings.
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In the past week, it has been the scene of two shootings.
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Some say they are numb to the increasing frequency of mass shootings.
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She added that protective action, not words, will help prevent mass shootings.
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Yet today, not one of those shootings is among the five deadliest.
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Shootings generally increased in nine of the 10 cities as temperatures rose.
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We get the most stabbings, shootings and drug overdoses on this shift.
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Some of the US's worst school shootings occurred before games were commonplace.
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The first report of the shootings began at about 6:30 a.m.
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In each of the fatal shootings this year, the victims were armed.
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Some of them witnessed shootings from their cars, others from their home.
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The trio was patrolling the area after a spate of recent shootings.
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Investigators have declined to say why they think the shootings are related.
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She lost two of her sons, Khiel and Na'im, to police shootings.
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At least 3,500 people died in 30 years of bombings and shootings.
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No Y.C.P. graduates or participants are suspects in any of the shootings.
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Soon, he was fantasizing about packing heat during the Paris terrorist shootings.
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A year earlier, there were 500 workplace homicides, including 394 fatal shootings.
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The movie was pulled from theaters after two high-profile mass shootings.
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Investigators were searching for the gun or guns used in the shootings.
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This includes 29 mass shootings by permit holders who killed 139 people.
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Tensions also rose after multiple shootings in which police officers were targeted.
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Shootings and murders dropped across almost every category of motive last year.
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Shootings have dropped significantly in that area since the raid, he noted.
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After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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In 2017, Oakland had 277 nonfatal shootings — down from 557 in 2012.
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The shootings were "a premeditated assassination attempt," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
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During both trials, prosecutors will frame the shootings as unnecessary and criminal.
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The commission's final report downplayed the role of guns in school shootings.
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In Texas, where there were multiple deadly shootings in August, Lt. Gov.
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Mr. Whitman's body count is routinely matched by today's Texas mass shootings.
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But she soon found people "numb" to the reminders of mass shootings.
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