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22 Feb 2019
Mass shootings are statistically flat over the last 20 years.

And when you see a robot, because that's what this guy was like, and it's an incredible, if you had to profile a subset of people that keep doing these things, even though mass shootings are flat in the last 20 years, about the same every year, this year's actually been worse than the last decade or so statistically. But overall, it's flat. You can pull those numbers up.

10 Jul 2017
FBI studies show that mass shootings have increased significantly between 2000 and 2015.

One of the interesting things that you can dig up is the FBI did a study, and they found that there were 160 incidents of active... Gun mass shootings from 2000 to 2013. That's defined as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Similarly, a study found that there were 1,052 incidents from 2013 to December 2, 2015, where at least four people were shot, but not necessarily killed. If Alex wants to try and make the argument that mass shootings are down and that gun violence isn't a real issue, the numbers really don't support that.