{"id":3055,"date":"2013-02-04T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:52:27","slug":"study-the-u-s-has-had-one-mass-shooting-per-month-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/study-the-u-s-has-had-one-mass-shooting-per-month-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: The U.S. has had one mass shooting per month since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/california-school-district-spent-14000-on-new-semi-automatic-colt-rifles\/attachment\/3034\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3034\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3034\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/colt_694_rifles.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/colt_694_rifles.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/colt_694_rifles-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress is in the midst of a heated debate over gun control and how best to tamp down on gun violence. And mass shootings like the one that tore through Sandy Hook Elementary School last December are a huge part of that discussion.<\/p>\n<p>So how much do we actually know about mass shootings and the people who commit them? A <a href=\"http:\/\/libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com\/9\/f8\/9\/1098\/1\/mass_shootings_2009-13_-_jan_29_12pm.pdf\">new study<\/a> (pdf) commissioned by Mayors Against Illegal Violence* tries to add some much-needed detail.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers pored through the FBI database and recent media reports for every mass shooting since January 2009\u00a0\u2014 that is, incidents in which at least four people were murdered by guns. Here are their key takeaways, some of them surprising:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/02\/study-the-u-s-has-had-one-mass-shooting-per-month-since-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study: The U.S. has had one mass shooting per month since 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is in the midst of a heated debate over gun control and how best to tamp down on gun violence. And mass shootings like the one that tore through Sandy Hook Elementary School last December are a huge part of that discussion. So how much do we actually know about mass shootings and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[274,1631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}