Database discrepancies in understanding the burden of mass shootings in the United States, 2013–2020Research in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2023 Summary: Background: The United States experiences more mass shootings than any other nation in the world. Various entities have sought to collect data on this phenomenon, but there is no scholarly consensus regarding how best to define mass shootings ...
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Comparing different models to forecast the number of mass shootings in the United States: An application of forecasting rare event time series data [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The number of mass shootings in the United States has increased in the recent decades. Understanding the future risk of the mass shootings is critical for designing strategies to mitigate the risk of mass shootings, and part of understanding the future ...
Xue Lei, Cameron A. MacKenzie
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The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014–2019 [PDF]
Injury Epidemiology, 2021 Background Fatal mass shootings, defined as four or more people killed by gunfire, excluding the perpetrator, account for a small percentage of firearm homicide fatalities.
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Nonfatal Injuries Sustained in Mass Shootings in the US, 2012–2019: Injury Diagnosis Matrix, Incident Context, and Public Health Considerations [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Introduction: The epidemic of gun violence in the United States (US) is exacerbated by frequent mass shootings. In 2021, there were 698 mass shootings in the US, resulting in 705 deaths and 2,830 injuries.
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Assessing the contagiousness of mass shootings with nonparametric Hawkes processes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media.
Peter Boyd, James Molyneux
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Statistics and Public Policy, 2021 Mass public shootings have generated significant levels of fear in the recent years, with many observers criticizing the media for fostering a moral panic, if not an actual rise in the frequency of such attacks. Scholarly research suggests that the media
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Public Mass Shootings: Counterfactual Trend Analysis of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
JMIR Public Health and SurveillanceBackgroundAssault weapon and large-capacity magazine bans are potential tools for policy makers to prevent public mass shootings. However, the efficacy of these bans is a continual source of debate.
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Silent echoes: understanding and predicting the widespread mental health impact of mass shootings [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthHalf of the 20 deadliest US. mass shootings have occurred in the past decade. We propose and find that the mental health consequences of such shootings are not confined to the immediate community but affect Americans nationwide.
Aadi Mishra, Max E. Coleman
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Income inequality and mass shootings in the United States [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Mass shootings are an increasingly common phenomenon in the United States. However, there is little research on whether the recent growth of income inequality is associated with this rise of mass shootings.
Roy Kwon, Joseph F. Cabrera
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What have we learned from the time trend of mass shootings in the U.S.? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Little is known regarding the time trend of mass shootings and associated risk factors. In the current study, we intended to explore the time trend and relevant risk factors for mass shootings in the U.S.
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