United States of america The past year experienced 61 “active shooter” incidents, the rapid increase in the number of attacks, casualties and geographic distribution since 2020 and the highest tally in 20 years, FBI Reported on Monday.
According to the FBI, the 2021 total, spread across 30 states, was 52% higher than in 2020 and nearly doubled in each of the previous three years. The agency defines an active shooter as someone who shoots or attempts to kill people in a public place in a seemingly random fashion.
Commercial businesses accounted for more than half of all such incidents last year, which was also notable for an emerging trend of “rowing active shooters” setting fire to multiple locations, as with a gunman that attacked several Atlanta-area spas, the FBI said.
The report said 103 people were killed and 140 were injured in last year’s active-shooter massacre. In contrast, the FBI counted 40 active-shooter attacks in 19 states that killed 38 and injured 126 in 2020, a year that coincided with the height of restrictions on social and economic life caused by the coronavirus pandemic. was.
Recent years pale in comparison to figures from 2017, the year a gunman opened fire from a high hotel window at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, killing 56 people and in a single incident. Hundreds of people were injured.
The Las Vegas attack alone helped propel 2017’s annual casualties – 143 killed and 591 injured – to a record high, even though there were only 31 active shooting incidents that year, nearly half the number in 2021.
As high as the death toll last year, it ranks as only the seventh deadliest year among active shooting incidents since 2000, the first year for which FBI data are available. Still, it marks the largest number of such attacks on record, just over 40 recorded in 2020.
californiaDespite having some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, it accounted for more active shooter incidents last year than any other state, six in 61, followed by Texas And as Georgia reports, with five each.
The deadliest incident of 2021 was the mass shooting at the King’s Sopers grocery store in Boulder, ColoradoIn which 10 victims died. Eight were killed and seven were injured at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
The FBI said its active shooter report does not include all gun violence or even all mass shootings, which the government defines as at least three deaths in a single incident.
What the FBI said was excluded from the data—events defined as acts of gang or drug-related violence, domestic disputes, isolated hostage situations or crossfire from other criminal acts.
According to the FBI, the 2021 total, spread across 30 states, was 52% higher than in 2020 and nearly doubled in each of the previous three years. The agency defines an active shooter as someone who shoots or attempts to kill people in a public place in a seemingly random fashion.
Commercial businesses accounted for more than half of all such incidents last year, which was also notable for an emerging trend of “rowing active shooters” setting fire to multiple locations, as with a gunman that attacked several Atlanta-area spas, the FBI said.
The report said 103 people were killed and 140 were injured in last year’s active-shooter massacre. In contrast, the FBI counted 40 active-shooter attacks in 19 states that killed 38 and injured 126 in 2020, a year that coincided with the height of restrictions on social and economic life caused by the coronavirus pandemic. was.
Recent years pale in comparison to figures from 2017, the year a gunman opened fire from a high hotel window at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, killing 56 people and in a single incident. Hundreds of people were injured.
The Las Vegas attack alone helped propel 2017’s annual casualties – 143 killed and 591 injured – to a record high, even though there were only 31 active shooting incidents that year, nearly half the number in 2021.
As high as the death toll last year, it ranks as only the seventh deadliest year among active shooting incidents since 2000, the first year for which FBI data are available. Still, it marks the largest number of such attacks on record, just over 40 recorded in 2020.
californiaDespite having some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, it accounted for more active shooter incidents last year than any other state, six in 61, followed by Texas And as Georgia reports, with five each.
The deadliest incident of 2021 was the mass shooting at the King’s Sopers grocery store in Boulder, ColoradoIn which 10 victims died. Eight were killed and seven were injured at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
The FBI said its active shooter report does not include all gun violence or even all mass shootings, which the government defines as at least three deaths in a single incident.
What the FBI said was excluded from the data—events defined as acts of gang or drug-related violence, domestic disputes, isolated hostage situations or crossfire from other criminal acts.