Those who are directly affected are suffering a horrible loss, and nothing else matters.
But for others, it's probably worth putting this in context.
Humanity has a long history of violence. Blood lust has been part of the human condition forever. Think of the names and the atrocities they've committed: ISIS, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler (and Eichmann, Himmler, Mengele, and others), Vladimir Lenin, Talat, H.H. Holmes, Jack the Ripper, King Leopold, Elizabeth Bathory, Queen Mary I, Ivan the Terrible, Timur, Vlad the Impaler, Genghis Kahn, Atilla the Hun, Caligula, Nero.....
So yes, there will always be violence. It's human nature. Fortunately, the world is less violent now than it has been.
And as for mass shootings, they remain rare.
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/mass-shootings-analysis/
9-year period from January 2009 and December 2017
173 mass shootings
Mostly accurate w/ historical context, but the problem is that we're working to reduce and eliminate so many of these other kinds of deaths. We're not doing much to eliminate mass shootings. We absolutely don't have the success rate for those kinds of crimes as other developed countries. We need to do more, soon. JMO
1,793 people shot, including 1,001 killed,
or an average of 111 deaths per year.
Domestic/family violence accounts for more than half of these shootings, and 102 of the 173 shootings took place entirely in private homes.
BEHIND THE BLOODSHED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MASS KILLINGS
From 2006 to 2017, there have been more than 350 mass killings in the United States, 272 of which were shootings. Those 272 shootings killed 1,483 people,
or an average of approximately 123 deaths per year.
130 of those 272 shootings were domestic/family situations that killed 597 people.
31 of those 272 were robbery/burglaries that killed 137 people.
58 of those 272 were “public killings” that killed 517 people, so an average of 5 public mass shootings that kill 43 people year.
Only 5 of the mass killers had an automatic weapon on them.
Other causes of death in the US:
- Accidental poisoning: 64,000 per year
- Flu: 55,000 per year (1,700 under age 45)
- Car accidents: 40,000 per year
- Falls: 36,000 per year (1,100 under age 45)
- Alcohol induced liver disease: 20,000 to 25,000 per year (3,000 under age 45)
- Accidental strangulation: 6,900 per year
- HIV: 5,000 to 6,000 per year
- Accidental drowning: 3,700 per year (400 pool drownings)
- Mother childbirth complications: 1,200 per year
- Bicycle accidents: 700 to 800 per year
- Accidental gun discharge: 400 to 500 per year
- Flesh eating bacteria: 150 to 200 per year
- Food allergies: 150 to 200 per year
- Mass shootings: 100 to 120 per year
- Dog bites: 30 to 50 per year
- Skiing/snowboarding: 35 to 40 per year
- Lightning strikes: 20 to 40 per year
