Gun Violence

The data on mass shootings is from https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ . See the codebook for full details. A mass shooting is defined as four or more people injured or killed, because of firearms, excluding the shooter. <br>The curated datasets are included here along with a research question and guiding questions.<br><br>For information of how this data is collected, go to: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/explainer Definition for mass shooting and mass murder from the above website is given verbatim below:<br><br><b>Mass Shooting Methodology and Reasoning</b>: Mass Shootings are, for the most part an American phenomenon. While they are generally grouped together as one type of incident they are several different types including public shootings, bar/club incidents, family annihilations, drive-by, workplace and those which defy description but with the established foundation definition being that they have a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident. GVA also presents the count of Mass Murder which, like the FBI's definition is four or more victims, killed, not including the shooter. Mass Murder by gun is a subset of the Mass Shooting count.<br><br><br>