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Originally Posted by driveway
You're wrong. This is the first mass-shooting of 2015 in the state of Colorado. There have been 344 mass-shootings thus far in 2015 in the United States.
There was also only 1 mass shooting in Colorado in 2014 (out of 336 nationally), and 4 of 363 mass shootings in 2013 were in Colorado.
Source:
http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015
shootingtracker defines a mass shooting as "four or more people are shot [not necessarily killed] in a spree or setting, likely without a cooling off period. This may include the gunman himself ... or police shootings of civilians around the gunman." |
Shooing tracker has a grossly broad definition and results in a skewed set of data. If you compare the federal data, using the federal definition, there were 25 in 2013. That's compared to 363 as reported by shooting tracker.
I'm sure most people would agree that federal statistics and definitions should take precedence over a crowd sourced site that has decided on their own definition.