New data on mass shootings

[DanGuy48]

John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center has just released new data on mass shootings in the U.S., lots of pie charts, graphs.

Updated information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 through October 2023

When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvald…

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[rondon600]

The gender chart is offensive. Everyone knows there are more than 2!

 

[Worsley]

Aren't the majority of mass shootings now the result of transgenderism? A.K.A people suffering from schizophrenia which affects the way a persons feels, acts, and behaves. It is also a well known fact that when compared to their healthy counterparts in the general population, individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are 4 to 6 times more likely to commit a violent crime.

 

[Bob A]

Aren't the majority of mass shootings now the result of transgenderism? A.K.A people suffering from schizophrenia which affects the way a persons feels, acts, and behaves. It is also a well known fact that when compared to their healthy counterparts in the general population, individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are 4 to 6 times more likely to commit a violent crime.

According to NIMH, the percentage of people in the US diagnosed with schizophrenia is between 0.25% and 0.64%. That would seem to include those who are institutionalised as well as walkabouts.

Doesn't seem like a serious threat compared to the overall picture, even without selecting for the more violence-prone cultures.

I suspect that the mentally ill have enough problems on their plates without singling them out as a threat.

Anyway, most of the mass shootings are gang-related. The rare yet more spectacular examples are apparently often telegraphed well in advance. "Everybody knew he was gonna be trouble; he was always setting the neighborhood pets on fire" sort of thing.

• Across studies that use household-based survey samples, clinical diagnostic interviews, and medical records, estimates of the prevalence of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders in the U.S. range between 0.25% and 0.64%

 

[gtodave]

In 2022, about 6% of the US were veterans, but almost 20% of mass public shooters were veterans.

That's a disturbing stat.