No, 158 House Districts Haven’t Had Mass Shootings This Year

By Tom Knighton

The media spends an awful lot of time on mass shootings, and if you look at it objectively, it makes sense. Mass shootings draw a lot of attention. So much so that some people will read anything with a headline talking about mass shootings. You know, kind of like this story.

Anyway, earlier this week, The Hill ran a story that was bound to trouble a whole lot of people. After all, it claimed that 158 House districts were host to a mass shooting this year alone.

More than a third of all House lawmakers represent districts where a mass shooting has occurred this year, highlighting the bipartisan pressure on Congress to take action on gun legislation after a wave of killings in Texas and Ohio during August.

An analysis by The Hill found that about two-thirds of those shootings have taken place in districts represented by Democrats, many of whom represent cities hard-hit by the scourge of gun violence, while a third occurred in Republican-held districts, from the suburbs to rural communities.

Through Friday, 158 congressional districts had experienced at least one mass shooting this year. Fifty-two of those districts are held by Republicans, and 106 are represented by Democrats.

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