More than 210 people died in mass attacks in the US this year alone
For many people in the United States, 2019 will forever be marked by loss, given that the country saw more mass killings than in any year in the past.compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University, perpetrators in the U.S. attacked people in 41 mass killings — defined as when four or more people were killed, according to USA Today. More than 210 people died in those attacks alone.
“What makes this even more exceptional is that mass killings are going up at a time when general homicides, overall homicides, are going down,” James Densley, a criminologist and professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota,. “As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths.”
This marks the most mass killings in the database, which goes back to the 1970s; the year with the second-most mass killings was 2006 with 38, the database showed. (The number of fatalities is eclipsed by 224 victims in 2017, due in part to the Las Vegas shooting that became the deadliest in modern American history,
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