Mass shooting kills 4, wounds 17 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama.
Mass shooting kills 4, wounds 17 in nightlife district in Birmingham, Alabama.
Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said authorities believe the shooting targeted one of the people who was killed, possibly in a murder-for-hire
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TIL it has its own wiki page.
This depressing page also exists exists: List of mass shootings in the United States in 2024
As of August 31, a total of 527 people have been killed and 1,755 people have been wounded in 432 shootings.
For 2024 (only) ugh...
If you plot it over the last 20 years it looks a lot like a Verizon coverage map. Coincidence?
Real talk, nationwide maps like that are useless. They're just the the population map.
Sadly, yes. CNN has actually made some good graphs
Optimistically this year may end up not quite as deadly as the past couple.
Edit: looks like they're counting differently however.
Edit2: they're using the Gun Violence Archive number "a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time"
While Wikipedia sources from multiple lists (including VGA's) and a shooting needs to be listed in at least two for inclusion.
Well that's progress, at least?
I haven't looked into this at all. Why did it jump during COVID years? People cooped up too much?
That was likely a factor. Canada had its deadliest shooting rampage in history during that time.
To be fair, 432 shootings in a country of 340,000,000 isn't THAT crazy, relatively speaking, especially considering the existence of the 2nd Amendment, and that last I heard, there are more guns in the US than people.
Well, IMO, thats the crazy part..
I don't like guns either, just trying to be objective about it. People like to talk about the US like we're all constantly gunning each other down, but the reality is that it's quite rare.
Even moreso if you don't count stuff like gang hits, which this was.
If more kids die by guns than car crashes, I think that's significant. Also IIRC USA has way more car accidents than the EU.
You just got used to it IMO.
You are correct, the US needs to increase speed limits to even things out again.
Most countries don't have more than one shooting a day.
Most countries don't have 340,000,000 people, either.
Yeah absolutely nothing to do with the worlds most stupid laws about guns. No no, not at all. It's... checks notes ... that there are less inhabitants there than in the EU.
Math is hard...
Isn't this just a population density map?
Essentially, yes.
Interestingly the stripe along the east coast follows the I-95 corridor.
Because I-95 follows the cities where people live. This is basically a population heatmap.