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What Counts as a Mass Shooting? The Definition We Use Matters

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It isn’t just a matter of semantics.

The Trace Join the search for solutions. Sign up for The Trajectory today. Email Address The Weekly Briefing The Trajectory The Bulletin Data Hub Events Subscribe Share Copy link Share on Facebook Email a link to this page We’re one month into 2024 and, depending on who you ask, we’ve had 32 mass shootings , five mass shootings , or, according to some, no mass shootings at all. There are so many different numbers because there’s no single agreed-upon meaning of “mass shooting.” Researchers, nonprofit trackers, and the media use different definitions. The government, for its part, has no offici

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