Weapons and mass shootings

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Weapons and mass shootings

America’s latest mass shooting took place just over a week ago when a 22-year-old college student with a history of mental illness killed three people with a knife in his apartment before going on a shooting spree through Santa Barbara, Calif. By the time he took his own life, six people were dead and 13 wounded.

The guns he used, a pair of Sig Sauer P226 handguns and a Glock 34 handgun, were registered to him and had been purchased from federally licensed gun dealers. Data collected by Mother Jones looking back at the weapons used in the last 30 years of mass shootings in the U.S. show that legal weapons are the norm.

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Killers by age and race

Almost 65 percent of the killers were white, which is comparable to their share of the population. More than 16 percent of the killers were black, slightly higher than their 12 percent share of the population. Only 6 percent of the killers were Hispanic, well below the approximately 17 percent of the total population share. And only two, less than 3 percent, have been women.

The entire article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/weapons-and-mass-shootings/?wpsrc=AG0003336

I mostly posted this for the interesting graphics they have for the data which can't be copied here.. Please take a look..

Edited June 2, 2014 by OnMyWayID