These Are the States With the Highest Rates of Mass Shootings

This June, one weekend saw 11 people killed and 60 injured in mass shootings. The end of that month marked the U.S.’s deadliest six months of mass shootings in decades, and on July 22, an attack in a Houston park brought the number of mass shootings in 2023 to 400. More and more, it seems there’s no place to avoid the threats they pose.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But some states are certainly more dangerous than others, at least according to a new dataset released by a team at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, which for the first time maps the geographic distribution of mass shooting incidence rates. In their study, published July 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, the authors provide clear metrics on mass shootings in each state and the District of Columbia from 2014 through 2022. Among statistics like the numbers of shootings related to domestic violence, crime, and what the authors call “social motivations”—like racism, religious hate, and domestic terrorism—the authors provided the rate of mass shootings per capita in each state. The result, which uses data from the Gun Violence Archive, is a simple geographic distribution showing where people are most affected by mass shootings, which the study defines as an incident where four or more people, not including the shooter, are shot or killed. (There’s no universally agreed-upon definition of wha...
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