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There&#39;s a Big Problem With Mass Shooting Stats
There's a Big Problem
With Mass Shooting Stats
OPINION
Dec 4, 2015 12:04 PM CST

There's a Big Problem With Mass Shooting Stats

Lack of a proper definition can blur our understanding, writes essayist

(Newser) - Were you floored by the finding that we've had more mass shootings than days this year? So was Mark Follman. According to Mother Jones , where Follman is an editor, there have been only four mass shooting this year—including the one in San Bernardino—and only 73 since 1982....

Female San Bernardino Shooter Praised ISIS Online

Authorities say Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State

(Newser) - Authorities say the woman who took part in this week's mass shooting in San Bernardino had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State online. The details of what Tashfeen Malik wrote and when she wrote it are still developing, but NBC News quotes a source as saying that she posted...

ATF: San Bernardino Rifles Were Legal—at First

Weapons used by San Bernardino shooters altered for more power after purchase

(Newser) - The weapons used by the San Bernardino shooters may have been legally obtained , but that doesn't mean they remained legal under California law. The two .223-caliber semiautomatic weapons and two 9mm pistols said to have been carried by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik in Wednesday's attack were...

Co-Worker's Question Before Rampage: 'Where's Syed?'

'The situation was surreal,' says responding officer

(Newser) - Patrick Baccari greeted his San Bernardino County co-worker with his usual joke before a mandatory all-day continuing education meeting in the conference room. "Ready to be bored?" he asked. "I'm ready," Syed Farook said with a smile. Soon the room was filled with 75 people and...

NY Sheriff Urges Gun Owners to Start Carrying

Request made 'in light of recent events'

(Newser) - In light of "recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world," it's time for people to stop leaving their guns at home, according to the sheriff of Ulster County, NY. In a Facebook post , Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum encourages "citizens of...

Senate Rejects Additional Gun Control Measures

The polarizing vote came one day after a shooting in California left 14 people dead

(Newser) - A polarized Senate voted Thursday against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest US mass shooting left 14 people dead in California. Thursday's mostly party-line 50-48 vote, which followed the Senate's defeat of other firearms curbs, underscored that political gridlock...

'I'll Take a Bullet Before You Do': San Bernardino Cop to Workers

Video shows tense moments as group is led out of massacre site to safety

(Newser) - San Bernardino office workers trapped in the Inland Regional Center after Wednesday's shootings got some reassurance in the form of a police officer who led them to safety. In a video taken by employee Gabi Flores and provided to KPCC , the cop instructs frightened people to "keep your...

Let's All Be Quiet About Mass Shootings

Daily Beast writer calls for a moratorium, a 'wordless groan'

(Newser) - The mass shooting in San Bernardino has set off familiar refrains from all camps about gun violence and related politics, and Ana Marie Cox at the Daily Beast would prefer a much different reaction for once: silence. "The right ridicules calls for gun safety measures. The left mocks what...

Obama: 'We Don't Know Why They Did It'

But he doesn't rule out the possibility of terrorism

(Newser) - President Obama spoke on the San Bernardino shooting Thursday after being briefed by top security officials, but he's apparently in the same boat as everyone else in trying to understand a motive. "We don't know why they did it," he told reporters in the Oval Office,...

Before Shooting, Suspects Left Their Baby at Grandma's

Cops believe both San Bernardino shooters have been killed

(Newser) - The colleagues Syed Rizwan Farook failed to massacre say he was a quiet, polite man who appeared to be happily building a life with his wife and their 6-month-old baby. Patrick Baccari, a fellow health inspector who shared a cubicle with the San Bernardino suspect, says the 28-year-old seemed to...

We've Had More Mass Shootings Than Days in 2015

San Bernardino wasn't day's only shooting

(Newser) - Mass shootings are not a daily event in the US—they're more common than that. The Washington Post reports that according to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker , there have been at least 355 mass shootings in the US so far in 2015, which works out to more than one...

2 San Bernardino Suspects Named
 2 San Bernardino 
 Suspects Named 
UPDATED
Dec 3, 2015 12:19 AM CST

2 San Bernardino Suspects Named

Syed Farook was county health employee

(Newser) - Still no word on a motive in Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino , but law enforcement sources have now identified two of the shooters as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department tweeted that Farook and Malik were the man and...

1 Possible Suspect Is Shot in San Bernardino
 2 Suspects Dead 
 in San Bernardino 
UPDATED
Dec 2, 2015 7:58 PM CST

2 Suspects Dead in San Bernardino

A man and a woman were shot in police chase

(Newser) - Big developments in the San Bernardino mass shooting : Police chased a black SUV—the type of vehicle seen fleeing the shooting—resulting in a shootout that left two suspects dead, a man and a woman, reports the Los Angeles Times . Both are still unidentified, and Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said...

Argument at Party May Have Sparked Shooting

One suspect reportedly left after dispute and then returned, armed

(Newser) - Authorities still haven't officially weighed in on a motive for Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14, but the Los Angeles Times reports that it may have been sparked by something mundane-sounding: an argument at a holiday office party. The newspaper quotes an anonymous federal official who...

16 Injured in New Orleans Playground Shootout

Gunfire erupted as hundreds gathered for party

(Newser) - The "Bunny Friend Playground" might sound like one of the most harmless places on the planet, but it was the site of a shooting that left at least 16 people injured in New Orleans on Sunday evening. Police say hundreds of people were at the 9th Ward park for...

Tourniquets in Every School? Many Now Say Yes

Obama and health care professionals say the simple devices could save many

(Newser) - The US military knows firsthand the effectiveness of a relatively simple tool in saving lives—the tourniquet. Consider the eye-opening stat in one military study that 90% of those who died from a potentially survivable wound did so specifically from "uncontrolled blood loss," notes the Atlantic . Its use...

Paris Death Toll Rises to 60 as France Closes Borders

President Obama pledges to help

(Newser) - French media are reporting least 60 people are dead in Friday's Paris attacks , per Reuters . Multiple, apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks hit almost simultaneously, and at least 100 hostages were reportedly being held at a concert hall after one of the shootings. There were reportedly as many as...

Shooter's Neighbor Called 911, Was Told Open Carry Is Legal

'That guy I just called you about, he just shot somebody'

(Newser) - Before Noah Harpham opened fire Saturday in Colorado Springs— killing three people seemingly at random—his neighbor called 911 to report him wandering around outside with a rifle, the Denver Post reports. "He did have a distraught look on his face," that neighbor, Naomi Bettis, tells the Post....

Looking for Clues in Mass Shooters' Manifestos

'He is unhappy, and he is already fully armed'

(Newser) - In the past 15 years, the FBI estimates there have been nearly 200 mass shootings that have claimed the lives of some 500 people and injured another 600. (The figure is way higher by another metric .) Writing for the London Review of Books , Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan draws...

No, We Don't Need to Worry About the 'Autistic Shooter'

Writer debunks a myth born of ignorance

(Newser) - The mother of the man who opened fire at a community college in Oregon thought her son was autistic, leading to a Facebook page whose name is self-explanatory: “Families Against Autistic Shooters." It ranted against "cold, calculating killing machines" and asked, “What do all shooters over...

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