A gun was used for nearly three-quarters of the mass attacks carried out in the U.S. from 2016 to 2020, and often acquired illegally to carry out the attack, newly released U.S. Secret Service report finds.
A US Secret Service Uniformed Division police car is parked in front of the White House in Washington DC, April 21, 2022.The Secret Service says in the five-year span of data the agency analyzed, 513 people were killed and 1,234 people were injured.
In the attacks the Secret Service analyzed, most of the attackers "elicited behavior of concern" before carrying out the attack and many attackers had a history of "physically aggressive or intimidating behaviors." "Prior to the attack, he had exhibited behaviors indicative of several belief systems, including anti-Semitism, jihadism, and misogynistic or anti-female views," the report says.Nearly half of the attackers had a grievance against the site of the attack and were "retaliating for perceived wrongs related to personal, domestic or workplace issues," according to the report.
In 31% of the attacks, the perpetrator had some prior law enforcement contact that did not result in an arrest and 58% of attackers had a history of mental illness, the report found.
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