Personally, I prefer — and this is reflected in Vox’s map — a definition that includes any event in which four or more people are shot, not necessarily killed. I have a hard time understanding why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mourning and outrage have shaken the nation as mass shootings continue to mark some of the latest chapters of a long history of ...

There is no consensus among organizations that track shootings in the U.S. about the definition of "mass shooting" Twenty-one shot dead in Uvalde, Texas. Ten in Buffalo, N.Y. Four in Tulsa, Okla.

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Wednesday’s massacre in San Bernardino was the latest mass shooting in America. By some counts — including a heavily cited version — it was the 354th of the year. By a narrower definition, it was the ...

There is no universal standard for what constitutes a mass shooting, potentially causing discrepancies in data and research among authorities and experts -- and confusion for the average person. "Some ...

There were between 11 and 346 mass shootings in 2017, depending on the database. The discrepancy has real-world impacts Shortly after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, the research ...

President Trump said "we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by" in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, and didn't address the silencer bill in Congress. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: ...