FACTS: MASS SHOOTING DESERVE MORE INVESTIGATIONS!

• Nearly 80 percent of the killers obtained their weapons legally
• Three quarters of the shootings involved semiautomatic handguns, and more than a third of them assault weapons
• At least half of the killers used high-capacity magazines in their attacks
• All but one of the killers were men, the majority of them young adult to middle-age Caucasians
• A majority of the killers were mentally ill, with many showing signs of it prior to their attacks
• Not one of the 62 mass shootings was stopped by an armed citizen
• Forty percent of the mass shootings occurred since 2006, with 7 of them in 2012 alone

We also found that this was occurring against a backdrop of a nation becoming ever more heavily armed:

• Since the mid 1990s, the increase in guns in the US (to approximately 300 million today) has outpaced population growth by more than double
• 99 state laws passed in the last four years have made it easier to possess guns, carry them in public, and conceal them from the government

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/mass-shootings-james-alan-fox