another day, another mass shooting

ucbalumnus
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:51:52 +0000

iaparent:

I have no idea but have wondered, are there any stats as to if the number of mass shootings have gone up since say the 80’s or is it just that we now more about them because of the internet and 24 hour news cycle of today? Would the Jacksonville shooting have been much more than a filler article in the local paper in 1983?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measure-them-mass-shooting-deaths-are-up/ suggests that there has been an upward trend.

They may be getting more attention because there is much less overall crime than in the 1980s to early 1990s, although mass shootings are still only a small portion of overall homicides. Back then, there was more other crime (including homicides) locally for local newspapers to fill their pages with.