With a week still left in January, there have already been 37 mass shootings this year, according to a not-for-profit research group.
, a not-for-profit research group. Five of those ended with four or more people killed. The shootings have taken place from coast to coast, in seventeen different states, and the District of Columbia. The massacre at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, which police say was carried out by a seventy-two-year-old Asian man, was the deadliest yet.
Tallies such as the one from the Gun Violence Archive demonstrate that mass shootings come in multiple varieties, including domestic violence, gang violence, random attacks by disturbed individuals, attacks on co-workers, and domestic terrorism, which the F.B.I.as “violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
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