Mass shooting Las Vegas

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Pemalite said:

sc94597 said:

This is wrong. 

Homicides (including gun homicides) are at their lowest point  in the last fifty years, after a sharp spike due to socio-economic factors (a young population + economic stagflation.) 

Below is a chart since the 90's that compares the guns per capita vs. gun homicide rate over a twenty year span.  

 

A Homicide is any act of one human killing another.

I am strictly talking about massacres.

Then why say "gun violence"? Mass public schootings, defined as "four or more people killed indiscriminately" make up a very small minority (less than 1%) of gun casualties in the United States. Their increase coincides with the shutting down of mental health facilities (late 70's.)