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Mass shootings, which had become far less frequent in 2020, have come roaring back. On Monday, a gunman opened fire...

After deadly school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland, many states mandated School Resource Officers or provided funding for...

While the names of victims and perpetrators are spread by the media, survivors of school shootings tend to be overlooked....

After the terrible mass shooting in Milwaukee yesterday, the Los Angeles Times used our data to examine precisely how many mass...

When we first started building our database of mass shooters, we contemplated simply housing all the data exclusively on our...

This year has been the worst on record for mass shootings, including many at places of worship. Read our analysis...

To really understand the profiles of mass shooters, you have to look at where the crime took place. Attacks in...

If you look at mass shootings over time, two things are alarmingly clear: The attacks are becoming far more frequent...

The Violence Project has studied every U.S. mass shooting since 1966. Its database, which is not publicly available yet, includes...

The Violence Project's James Densley joined Don Lemon on CNN Tonight to discuss the recent mass shootings. He also discussed...

The key to preventing mass shootings lies in understanding what the perpetrators have in common: (1) early childhood trauma and...