After Saturday’s shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas, the United States has recorded 22 mass killings, which collectively have resulted in at least 115 deaths, according to a database tracking mass killings.
The Washington Post defines a mass killing as an event in which four or more people, not including the shooter, have been killed by gunfire. The death counts do not include the shooter.James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University and one of the experts behind the database tracking mass killings, said that 2023 is “the worst that we’ve seen at least since 2006.”Still, Fox cautioned that it was not yet certain that 2023 would set a record.
Schweit said she doesn’t want to disregard the number of mass killings in the country, but said she wants Americans “to look beyond the numbers as a country, as a population and say: ‘What am I doing in my neighborhood that might be helping reduce these numbers,’ or, you know, ‘What is happening in my town?’”
“That’s the challenge — when the numbers are the headline all the time, then the challenge is that everybody thinks that we are living in the Wild West and you have to have a gun to go to the grocery store, or you have to have a gun to, you know, take your kid to school or to the park,” Schweit said. People “who don’t have any past experience with weapons are now buying firearms and carrying them everywhere.
The shooting in Allen is the third mass killing recorded in Texas so far this year. In 2022, Texas recorded six mass killings by gun — the most of any single state.
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