A whole lotta gun violence
by digby
Major Findings from the FBI’s Active Shooter Incidents Study
The just-released “A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013” contains a full list of the 160 incidents used in study, including those that occurred at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary School, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fort Hood, the Aurora (Colorado) Cinemark Century 16 movie theater, the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, and the Washington Navy Yard, as well as numerous other tragic shootings. Here are some of the study’s findings:
– Active shooter incidents are becoming more frequent—the first seven years of the study show an average of 6.4 incidents annually, while the last seven years show 16.4 incidents annually.
– These incidents resulted in a total of 1,043 casualties (486 killed, 557 wounded—excluding the shooters).
– All but six of the 160 incidents involved male shooters (and only two involved more than one shooter).
– More than half of the incidents—90 shootings—ended on the shooter’s initiative (i.e., suicide, fleeing), while 21 incidents ended after unarmed citizens successfully restrained the shooter.
– In 21 of the 45 incidents where law enforcement had to engage the shooter to end the threat, nine officers were killed and 28 were wounded.
– The largest percentage of incidents—45.6 percent—took place in a commercial environment (73 incidents), followed by 24.3 percent that took place in an educational environment (39 incidents). The remaining incidents occurred at the other location types specified in the study—open spaces, military and other government properties, residential properties, houses of worship, and health care facilities.
Hey, only a thousand or so casualties in these mass shootings! What’s the big deal?
IN ONE YEAR ON AVERAGE* (all ages)
More than 100,000 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, or by police intervention.31,637 people die from gun violence:
11,690 people are murdered.
18,738 people kill themselves.
591 people are killed unintentionally.
362 are killed by police intervention.
256 die but intent is not known.74,835 people survive gun injuries:
53,890 people are injured in an attack.
3,753 people survive a suicide attempt.
16,405 people are shot unintentionally.
787 people are shot by police intervention.
Just saying.