A Guide to Mass Shootings in America(timeline) A Guide to Mass Shootings in America. Update, December 2: See our ongoing coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino here; we will update this database as more details emerge.
Editor's note, October 2, 2015: We have updated this database with the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, in which nine were murdered and nine others wounded. The previous update was in July, with the attack at a military center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which came a month after the one at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The interactive map below and our downloadable database, first published in July 2012, have been expanded with 10 additional cases from 2013-2015.* Other public shooting attacks in that period—such as a rampage at Fort Hood, another in Isla Vista, California, another at a movie theater in Louisiana, and two in Colorado Springs, including an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic—have not been added because there were fewer than four victims shot to death in each of those cases.
Gun crime statistics by US state. How bad is gun crime in the US?
The latest data from the FBI's uniform crime reports provides a fascinating picture of the use of firearms in crimes across America. Barack Obama is under pressure to tighten gun laws after following the disclosure by police that the Newtown gunman used a semi-automatic assault rifle equipped with "numerous" high-capacity magazines holding hundreds of bullets to carry out his massacre of young children. Murder Statistics by state.