US home to nearly a third of world's mass shootings!

[garyoak99]

There are more mass shootings in the U.S. than in any other country in the world. Here is a snapshot of this all-too-familiar American reality:
Mass shootings are a largely American phenomenon
From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world's mass shootings took place in the U.S. This is according to a 2016 study that used the FBI definition of 'mass shooting' below. It surveyed 292 incidents and found 90 of them occurred in America. Put another way: While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings.

The number of 'mass shootings' changes depending on how you define it
The government has never defined "mass shooting" as a stand-alone category. So, depending on whichever informal definition you go with, the tally can drastically vary. Federal statutes define a "mass killing" as an incident resulting in three or more deaths. The commonly accepted definition -- the one the FBI used up to 2013 -- is a shooting that killed four or more people. By that definition, we've seen 136 mass shootings in the first 164 days of this year.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/mass-shootings-in-america-in-charts-and-graphs-trnd/index.html
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[Destroyer]

I live in the United States in Indiana and i hate to see what has happened to this country. This past week or 2 has been awful. It's been a tragedy almost every day now.
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[garyoak99]

I agree! It's unbelievable how a man who has been investigated twice by the FBI can gain access to a new lethal firearm like the SIG MCX!
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