In the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, Dan O’Donnell debunks every major myth and misconception about mass shootings in America. Another 11% of the mass shooting incidents were domestic violence-related, resulting in a full 31% of all deaths in mass shootings in 2015. A substantial number of the remaining 24% of mass shooting incidents were robbery-related or committed in the commission of some other crime in high-crime areas of major or mid-sized cities. Even the Gun Violence Archive, which has the most liberal definition of “mass shooting,” recorded 513 deaths in mass shooting incidents out of 19,395 total gun homicides in 2020—just 2.6%. The belief that they can is, like much of what America thinks it knows about mass shootings, a myth.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2022 13:03 UTC