Share of mass public shooters U.S. 1999-2024, by race and location of shooting

From 1966 to January 2024, 81 percent of mass public shooters who carried out the shooting at K-12 schools in the United States identified as White, followed by 13 percent who were Native American and six percent who were Latinx. For mass public shootings occurring at colleges and universities, the shooter was most likely to identify as Asian, at 44 percent, followed by 33 percent who were White. In addition, Black and Middle Eastern shooters each made up 11 percent. The source defines a mass public shooting as: “a multiple homicide incident in which four or more victims are murdered with firearms—not including the offender(s)—within one event, and at least some of the murders occurred in a public location or locations in close geographical proximity (e.g., a workplace, school, restaurant, or other public settings), and the murders are not attributable to any other underlying criminal activity or commonplace circumstance (armed robbery, criminal competition, insurance fraud, argument, or romantic triangle). Mass shootings attributable to gangs, as well as most domestic homicides, are therefore excluded from this definition.

自1966年至2024年1月，在美国中小学发生的重大公共枪击事件中，81%的枪击者自认为是白人，其次是13%的印第安人，以及6%的拉丁美洲裔。对于发生在大学和学院的重大公共枪击事件，枪击者最有可能自认为是亚洲人，占比44%，其次是33%的白人。此外，黑人和中东裔枪击者各占11%。该来源将重大公共枪击事件定义为：“在一次事件中，有四名或更多受害者被枪杀（不包括罪犯），且至少部分谋杀发生在公共场所或地理位置接近的地点（例如，工作场所、学校、餐厅或其他公共场所），且这些谋杀事件不能归因于任何其他潜在的犯罪活动或常见情况（武装抢劫、犯罪竞争、保险欺诈、争吵或恋爱三角关系）。因此，由帮派引起的重大枪击事件以及大多数家庭谋杀事件不包括在此定义之内。”
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搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集统计了美国从1966年至2024年1月期间，大规模公共枪击事件中枪手的种族构成，并按枪击发生地点（如K-12学校和高等院校）进行细分。数据集明确定义了'大规模公共枪击'事件，排除了与帮派、家庭凶杀或其他特定犯罪活动相关的案件，数据来源于The Violence Project，提供了按种族和地点分类的枪手比例分析。