Yesterday, CNN’s Jim Acosta stated that 1,552 mass shootings have happened since the Sandy Hook shootings 5 years ago. Which would mean an average of 300+ mass shootings every year.
But don’t ya think if over 300 mass shootings were happening every year we would know about it… even worldwide that figure seems very high.
Since Sandy Hook there have been at least 1,552 mass shootings, with at least 1,767 people killed and 6,227 wounded. https://t.co/RZeFDHhYmR
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 14, 2017
He got the figure from this Vox article. While left online mag puts the number somewhere closer to 33. So who do we believe? Really, it would depend on how you define “mass shooting” but even still 1,500+… come on.
Using the actual FBI definition of mass shootings, there seems to have only been four mass shootings for the entire year of 2015, yet leftists were claiming 355.
And in terms of actual deadliest since Sandy here, here’s what this site came up with:
The most recent mass shooting happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on November 5th. The gunman killed 26 people including an unborn child when he shot up a Baptist Church.
A month earlier on October 1st, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire at a music festival from his hotel room in the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas.This is ranked as the deadliest shooting of all time, with 58 people killed and about 500 injured.
On June 12th, 2016, a shooting targeted young LGBTQ people at the nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. This is the second deadliest shooting, with 49 deaths and more than 50 injuries.
On December 2nd, 2015, 14 people were killed when married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
Nine people were injured and nine people killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on October 1st, 2015.
Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, shot and killed nine people at an Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He was convicted of hate crimes and sentenced to death.
A shooting in the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on September 16th, 2013, killed 12, including the killer, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis.
