The United States has had more mass shootings than any other country. The Federal Bureau of Investigation designated 61 events as active shooter incidents in 2021. The Violence Project of the National Institute of Justice recorded 185 mass shootings from 1966 to December 2022. The Associated Press recorded 59 mass shootings between 2006 and August 2022. Mother Jones recorded 140 mass shootings between 1982 and February 2023. Using a similar definition, The Washington Post recorded 163 mass shootings in the United States between 1967 and June 2019. Using this definition, one study found that nearly one-third of the world's public mass shootings between 19 (90 of 292 incidents) occurred in the United States, The New York Times recorded the same total of mass shootings for that span of years. One definition is an act of public firearm violence-excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization-in which a shooter kills at least four victims. Definitions vary, with no single, broadly accepted definition. ![]() Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. Clockwise from top left: The 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the Orlando nightclub shooting, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the 2019 El Paso shooting. Memorials for some of the deadliest mass shootings that occurred in the United States.
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