Crime FBI report reveals what most active shooter situations have in common

[spamking]

Interesting read.

FBI report reveals what most active shooter situations have in common

A new report released by the FBI reveals the locations where active shooting incidents are most likely to happen in the United States.

news.yahoo.com

A new report by the FBI documenting where "active shooter incidents" happened in the U.S. in 2023 reveals that open spaces – which include roads, neighborhoods, parks and outdoor venues – are the places where victims are most likely to be targeted.

Federal investigators say there were 48 active shooter incidents in total last year across 26 states, resulting in 105 deaths and 139 injuries.

California – which has some of the toughest gun control laws in the country – led the way with eight incidents, followed by Texas and Washington state, each with four.

49 total shooters (who used mostly handguns) were responsible. All but one were male.

Why have these types of shootings become so common? The firearms commonly used have more or less been available for decades. Are we more depressed today than 35 years ago?

 

[Cherry Brigand]

The 49th one 'identified' as a male though, right?

 

[PBAC]

anyone who's played GTA knows this

 

[Andy Capp]

The 49th one 'identified' as a male though, right?

Hey, that was almost funny. Good on ya.

 

[DoctorTaco]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.

 

[spamking]

The 49th one 'identified' as a male though, right?

Something like that.

 

[spamking]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.

What seems pretty clear? This story wasn't comparing the US to any other country in the world.

Some mass shootings may involve gang violence, domestic violence, or terrorist acts. Several data centers and media outlets label the United States as the country with the most mass shootings annually in the world. However, mass shootings account for a small portion of the annual homicides, crimes, and deaths in the country. According to Mother Jones, between 1982 and 2022, the United States had on record 133 mass shootings, with most of those shootings occurring during the early 2000s and the present.

The percentage of homes in the US owning one or more guns hasn't changed much at all from 1972 to 2023. Access to guns was much easier before 1994. You could order one from the Sears catalog and have it shipped directly to your home.

Gun ownership in the U.S. 1972-2023
Published by Statista Research Department, May 22, 2024

The share of American households owning at least one firearm has remained relatively steady since 1972, hovering between 37 percent and 47 percent. In 2023, about 42 percent of U.S. households had at least one gun in their possession.

Additional information on firearms in the United States

Firearms command a higher degree of cultural significance in the United States than any other country in the world. Since the inclusion of the right to bear arms in the second amendment to the constitution of the United States, firearms have held symbolic power beyond their already obvious material power. Despite many Americans being proud gun-owners, a large movement exists within the country in opposition to the freedom afforded to those in possession of these potentially deadly weapons.
Those opposed to current gun regulation have sourced their anger from the large number of deaths due to firearms in the country, as well as the high frequency of gun violence apparent in comparison the other developed countries. Furthermore, the United States has fallen victim to a number of mass shootings in the last two decades most of which have raised questions over the ease at which a person can obtain a firearm. Although this movement holds a significant position in the public political discourse of the United States, meaningful change in regards to the legislation dictating the ownership of firearms has not occurred. Critics have pointed to the influence possessed by the National Rifle Association through their lobbying of public officials. The National Rifle Association also lobby for the interests of firearm manufacturing in the United States which has continued to rise since a fall in the early 2000s.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Quality of life and opportunity in the country is declining. For the majority of Americans now even more destitute and increasingly incapable of providing for themselves.
Total crime appears to be trending down form the Lock Down crime surge.

Keep pushing quality of life down and crime will rise as a result.

 

[PhitePhan]

What seems pretty clear? This story wasn't comparing the US to any other country in the world.

Some mass shootings may involve gang violence, domestic violence, or terrorist acts. Several data centers and media outlets label the United States as the country with the most mass shootings annually in the world. However, mass shootings account for a small portion of the annual homicides, crimes, and deaths in the country. According to Mother Jones, between 1982 and 2022, the United States had on record 133 mass shootings, with most of those shootings occurring during the early 2000s and the present.

The percentage of homes in the US owning one or more guns hasn't changed much at all from 1972 to 2023. Access to guns was much easier before 1994. You could order one from the Sears catalog and have it shipped directly to your home.

Gun ownership in the U.S. 1972-2023
Published by Statista Research Department, May 22, 2024

The share of American households owning at least one firearm has remained relatively steady since 1972, hovering between 37 percent and 47 percent. In 2023, about 42 percent of U.S. households had at least one gun in their possession.

Additional information on firearms in the United States

Firearms command a higher degree of cultural significance in the United States than any other country in the world. Since the inclusion of the right to bear arms in the second amendment to the constitution of the United States, firearms have held symbolic power beyond their already obvious material power. Despite many Americans being proud gun-owners, a large movement exists within the country in opposition to the freedom afforded to those in possession of these potentially deadly weapons.
Those opposed to current gun regulation have sourced their anger from the large number of deaths due to firearms in the country, as well as the high frequency of gun violence apparent in comparison the other developed countries. Furthermore, the United States has fallen victim to a number of mass shootings in the last two decades most of which have raised questions over the ease at which a person can obtain a firearm. Although this movement holds a significant position in the public political discourse of the United States, meaningful change in regards to the legislation dictating the ownership of firearms has not occurred. Critics have pointed to the influence possessed by the National Rifle Association through their lobbying of public officials. The National Rifle Association also lobby for the interests of firearm manufacturing in the United States which has continued to rise since a fall in the early 2000s.

The US is increasingly stressful, with inflation and financial strains, and tons of propaganda (ie “you’re not good enough u less you buy our product”) which can easily lead to anxiety, stress, and hopelessness… on top of all of this, we’ve been sold the idea of “you can become whatever you want” and increasing entitlement mindset where people expect to get what they want without putting in the hard work (this is coupled with dwindling opportunities, as well). I’m sure there’s more, but I think these types of changes in US culture are at least partly responsible for the changes in mass shootings despite guns being easily accessible forever.

TLDR, the US is increasingly a pressure cooker and people seem to be more liable to “snap” nowadays.

 

[White Whale]

SSRIs are being over prescribed too people when diet and exercise with therapy would benefit them far more.

 

[nostradumbass]

Was the non "male" the tranny is Nashville that shot up the kids?

 

[Fluffernutter]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.

Within our borders, we are flooded with guns.
A major component of our foreign policy is to flood other countries with guns.

Then, we wonder why we have a gun problem.

 

[spamking]

Within our borders, we are flooded with guns.
A major component of our foreign policy is to flood other countries with guns.

Then, we wonder why we have a gun problem.

It's not a gun problem. Something has changed within our society that has caused many to devalue others to the point they're capable of killing them on a whim without remorse.

 

[spamking]

Was the non "male" the tranny is Nashville that shot up the kids?

 

[LeonardoBjj]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.

- Brazil has plenty of high-powered guns in the hand of criminals. And they dont go around promoting mass shooting. Theres need to be something behind.

Criminal Arsenals Full After Brazil Made it Easier to Legally Buy Guns​

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson23 Jun 2022

The loosening of firearm restrictions in Brazil is creating new channels for criminal groups to obtain weapons via legal means – a worrying trend in a country long plagued by gun violence.

Brazilian police seized multiple firearms linked to notorious drug gang the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) during operations in São Paulo in June, all of which had been purchased using a legal permit known as a Collector, Shooter and Hunter license (Colecionadores, Atiradores e Caçadores – CAC). The CAC license allows Brazilians to purchase a wide variety of guns if they have no criminal record, are registered with a shooting club, and can demonstrate proficiency with a firearm.

The seizures, which included a submachine gun and a semi-automatic rifle, led police to investigate whether gangs like the PCC are using straw buyers or relatives with no criminal record to purchase legal firearms using CAC permits, according to Folha de São Paulo. One prosecutor from the Brazilian Attorney General’s Office told the newspaper that state intelligence suggested PCC members had already tried to buy firearms using CACs.

Back in January, authorities arrested an alleged straw buyer on suspicion of reselling legally purchased weapons and ammunition to multiple criminal organizations in Rio de Janeiro. Police seized over fifty weapons from the suspect’s home, including 26 high-powered rifles, all of which had been purchased for hunting or collection, O Globo reported.

The distribution of CAC licenses, administered by the Brazilian military, has ballooned under President Jair Bolsonaro, who has passed a slew of decrees rolling back restrictions on gun permit renewals. The measures have also loosened restrictions on the amount of guns and the type of firearms Brazilian citizens are allowed to own, among other regulations.

A bill backed by Bolsonaro and his congressional allies is now being debated in the Senate, with a view to enshrining these decrees in Brazilian law.

InSight Crime Analysis​

Though the use of straw buyers to purchase guns for criminal groups is not new in Brazil, the loosening of CAC regulations has created an attractive channel for legally purchasing a broad range of firearms at lower prices than on the black market.

“Before you couldn’t have just any weapon. You couldn’t get a rifle. You couldn’t just turn up…and buy anything,” Bruno Langeani, head of the Sou da Paz Institute in Brazil, told Folha de São Paulo. “That was all removed.”

Now, the relative ease of purchasing weapons with CAC permits appears to be feeding a stream of legal guns into the hands of criminal groups.

This includes Brazil’s armed militias – former vigilante networks that have steadily transformed into criminal groups – which previously had to rely on recruiting members of the security forces to acquire guns, according to Langeani.

Between 2019 and 2021, CAC issuances climbed by roughly 47 percent in the states of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, where Brazil’s militias are most present, according to Brasil de Fato.

“Before [the militias] had to depend on the recruitment of police, firefighters and the military to hire their members, precisely because these groups had gun permits, and could move around freely armed,” Langeani told Brasil de Fato.

He went on to highlight the risks posed through relaxed regulations allowing civilians to carry firearms. “When you give others the right to bear arms, you facilitate militia recruitment.”

Criminal groups in Brazil have long acquired guns by illegal means, notably by smuggling them in from the US or by stealing weapons from police and military stockpiles at home. Homemade and reassembled firearms provide further options for the country’s top crime rings.

https://insightcrime.org/news/criminal-arsenals-full-brazil-easier-legally-buy-guns/

 

[HomeCheese]

It's definitely a male problem, we need to do a much better job as a society. I huge portion of the male population is plugged up emotionally and don't know how to function.

I don't think any single intervention is going to do it either.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Gun ownership went up. Killings went down. Brazil debates why.​

Firearms enthusiasts are claiming victory. Not so fast, criminologists say.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin
and Gabriela Sá Pessoa
December 23, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST

BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ, Brazil — Take away the açaí smoothies and the skewers of barbecued Brazilian meat and the four-day Texas ExpoTiro here could be a gun show anywhere in the United States.

Firearms dealers from all over the world have rented booths to market Glock pistols and AR-15s, and gun rights advocates are offering lectures on how to confront violent urban crime.

“This is a triumph of liberty!” said retired military police chief Marcelo Venera, the executive director of the two-year-old expo, the largest gun show in the country and the first open to civilians. “We are here to show that we are good people and there is nothing wrong with loving guns!”

The gun owners of Brazil are proclaiming victory these days. Private gun ownership, once tightly restricted in Latin America’s largest country, has grown at least sixfold in the four years since President Jair Bolsonaro began relaxing the rules.

What’s more, gun enthusiasts say, it’s working: The homicide rate in Brazil — one of the world’s most violent countries — has fallen more than 27 percent since 2017.

“Everyone said there would be more homicides when Bolsonaro loosened the restrictions,” said Paulo da Silva, 25, attending the gun show with friends. “But it turned out to be the opposite!”

Not so fast, criminologists say. They’ve spent the past four years trying to understand the unexpected decline — and say it has little to do with Bolsonaro or his decrees.

Research consistently shows that when private gun ownership goes up, killings follow.Analysts say it’s too early to draw conclusions from what they’re calling a global test case for what happens when strict gun rules are suddenly lifted. But many say the drop here has more to do with organized-crime trends, investment in policing and demographics.

Much violent crime in Brazil, and homicides in particular, stems from turf battles between the well-armed drug cartels that control favelas, or slums, throughout the country. The victims are predominantly poor young men of color. In 2017, a major war between the country’s two biggest cartels drove gun-related homicides to record levels.

But since then, conflict between First Capital Command and Red Command has calmed considerably, said Roberto Uchôa, a former federal police officer and member of the Brazilian Public Security Forum.

First Capital Command now dominates São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state. In Rio de Janeiro, Red Command now clashes mostly with militias run by police, not rival gangs. As a result, the country’s northeast, ground zero for the groups’ 2017 war for new territory, has quieted.

Bolsonaro has also reaped the benefits of a decade of investment in policing, said Isabel Figueiredo, also a member of the Brazilian Public Security Forum, a nonprofit research group that has advocated for tougher gun laws. Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva professionalized local police forces and improved data collection and training, leading to a steady drop in homicides in several states. Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, defeated Bolsonaro in October to win a third term; he takes office in January.

-Nicole Bahls. A gift for those reading this wall of text!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/23/brazil-gun-rights-control-bolsonaro/

 

[LeonardoBjj]

It's definitely a male problem, we need to do a much better job as a society. I huge portion of the male population is plugged up emotionally and don't know how to function.

I don't think any single intervention is going to do it either.

- I was searching for brazilian girls holding guns. And theres one sugesting that woman should have easer acess to them. And i wond't care, they're raarely involved in shootings.

 

[Bravo Four]

Was the non "male" the tranny is Nashville that shot up the kids?

Yup. The guy with a penis between his legs. The one that masquerades as a girl. And some people here aren't ashamed to be liberals when this is their tribe, lol.

 

[My Spot]

We’ve been asking this question since columbine. We as a nation have more guns freely available than any other in the world and we have more gun deaths than any other nation in the world. seems pretty clear.