Mass Shootings Are More Frequent. Deadlier Too

By Tom Knighton

Mass shootings seem to be happening a lot more frequently here lately. From Las Vegas to Sutherland Springs to Parkland to Santa Fe High School to…just so many to count. It’s bad.

Now, it’s easy to wonder whether the problem is actually growing or whether or not it’s just the media latching onto these reports more often. After all, by some measures, there’s dozens of mass killings each month yet we only hear about a handful. It’s easy to figure the media is manipulating things to push an anti-gun narrative.

However, the Los Angeles Times took a look and found something alarming.

If you look at mass shootings over time, two things are alarmingly clear: The attacks are becoming far more frequent, and they are getting deadlier.

We’ve studied every public mass shooting since 1966 for a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. Our research spans more than 50 years, yet 20% of the 164 cases in our database occurred in the last five years. More than half of the shootings have occurred since 2000 and 33% since 2010. The deadliest years yet were …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms