FBI reports indicate that mass shootings in the US has increased

FBI has released a report that indicates that the number of shootings where a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased dramatically in recent years theguardian.com – the majority of attacks in the last decade have occurred at a business or a school and these add up to 160 “active shooter incidents” between 2000 and 2013.
Such instances are typically defined as cases in which a gunman in an attack shoots or attempts to shoot people in a populated area. The report does not include shootings that are gang and drug related.
The aim of the study, conducted in conjunction with Texas State University, as explained by federal law enforcement officials, was to compile accurate data about the attacks and to help local police prepare for or respond to similar killings in the future.
As per the report, an average of six shooting incidents occurred in the first seven years that were studied and that increased to over 16 per year in the last seven years of the study. The period under review included the 2012 shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, apart from last year’s massacre at the Washington Navy Yard in which a gunman killed 12 people before dying in a police shootout.