The Numbers
Don't Lie
Seeing "Mass shooting" in the news today is not as big as it would have been even five years ago. The general public is very accustomed to mass shootings to the point that most shootings are not recognized or skimmed over by the nation. America is sweeping the world with the number of mass shootings in the past years, and no one is batting an eye.
In 2017 alone, 463 people were wounded in mass shootings in America. 422 of those were in the span of 11 minutes. Las Vegas, Nevada, 10:05 pm, Stephen Paddock starts shooting out of his hotel window into the crowd of people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival. At 10:16, 58 people were
killed. In just over 10 minutes, a single man injured all those people.
There have been 384 mass shootings this year. 1,684 people were wounded. That is over 3x the number of people injured in 2017. In the ten biggest mass shootings since 1991 in America, 294 people died, and 662 people were injured.
BBC News reported that there have been 110 mass shootings between 1982 and 2012 in America. This year alone there are more than 3 times that amount. Canada has had 11. To correlate this information, NBC News reports that since 1979, Australia has only had 13 mass shootings, all 13 of those mass shootings were before 1996.
By Gwen Patterson
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