Mass shooting Las Vegas

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Hiku said:

I figured the major difference was made up by police shootings in USA, because that seems to occur much more frequently in the US than other countries I've compared to. But if they really count a bb gun shooting in the data, I'd be very interested in that. Do you have a link to that by any chance? I couldn't find it.

As for the chance of dying from a mass shooting, I wouldn't be surprised if that's similar to USA numbers in other countries. It's more the occurance of those shootings that seem a lot lower. And keep in mind I was talking about developed nations. And among them, those where guns are essentially 'banned'. Many countries on those list don't fall under those categories.
Also, taking sample data from only 2009 - now is going to change things since we started seeing a large spike in islamic terror in the last couple of years. In France for example, which I compared earlier, they only had 4-6 (two of them I'm not sure if they were shootings) mass shootings in the past century (that were not related to war) up until 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_France
But after 2012 they had 5 additional massacres, all related to islamic terror, and 4 of them involved mass shootings. So if you only look back to 2009, it paints a very different picture than if you look back a decade, in particular because of the islamic terror. But I'm more focused on how gun laws affect the culture. Not so much about terror organisations that are specificxally aimed to carry out these types of attacks.

It's been a few years since I last visited the site, but there was one which said "A twelve year old boy shot and injured five other boys with an airsoft gun." It was ridiculous. 

They mention it on their website, but they don't include it in their numbers, so that is my bad, but still the website is framed to make things look a lot worse than they are. 

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

"We collect incidents where Airsoft or BB guns are used AS weapons, not where they are used in general vandalism or delinquency. Those collected ARE NOT included in our Incident Totals on the Daily Summary Ledger"

The definition used by the FBI and liberal Mother Jones is "four or more people killed in a publicly indiscriminate shooting." According to that definition there is something like 7 mass shootings in the U.S per year rather than the hundreds or thousands found using other definitions like "four or more people injured by guns."