State: Mass shootings per , people since No. The US is a big outlier for gun violence among developed countries. Below is every mass shooting since Hover over a date to learn more. Tap on a date to learn more. Tap on a date below to explore the data yourself.
Number of people killed or wounded per day. Methodology Mass shooting data comes from the Gun Violence Archive , which defines mass shootings as events in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed at the same general time and location.
Writer German Lopez. The figures — also reported in research studies on the topic — show that nationwide, between and , the latest year of available data, about 1, children each year were killed by guns, and nearly 6, more were injured.
A study by CDC researchers published in June in the journal Pediatrics also found that the vast majority of those shooting victims were older children.
A total of 82 percent of children killed by guns in recent years were between 13 and 17 years old. When a gunman killed 20 first graders and six adults with an assault rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School in , it rattled Newtown, Conn. Since then, there have been at least school shootings nationwide. In those episodes, people were shot, of whom were killed. The data used here is from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that began tracking school shootings in , about a year after Sandy Hook.
The shootings have taken place at sporting events and in parking lots, cafeterias, hallways and classrooms. As of Wednesday night, 17 people had been killed and the number of people injured was unknown. Sixteen of the shootings shown below can be classified as mass shootings, events in which four or more people are shot. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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The first graders who were killed would have been in seventh grade today. Jessica Rekos, 6, told her mom, Krista Rekos, that morning before she got on the bus how excited she was to sell Girl Scout cookies that January.
Olivia Engel, 6, was an outgoing girl with "a great sense of humor. Avielle Richman, 6, "was rarely without a giant grin and often barefoot. Jesse Lewis, 6, was "just a happy boy" who was supposed to make gingerbread houses with his family Friday afternoon after school. Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7, was also killed in the massacre.
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