The Violence Project's data has been cited repeatedly in the aftermath of two horrific mass shootings in Atlanta, GA and Boulder, CO. Here are a few articles that mentioned us briefly, or cited our commentary in the New York Times. Links are in bold: Recent mass shootings in the U.S., Seattle Times, March 23. In America, getting back to … [Read more...]
Recent Mass Shootings
Tiroteos masivos en EEUU: ¿Un mal crónico? – Mass shootings in the US: A chronic disease?
"The COVID-19 pandemic apparently forced a truce and during 2020, mass shootings fell in the United States. But apparently that form of violence is back. In less than a week , two were registered." The Violence Project co-founder James Densley commented on the "era of mass shootings" in this article by El Político. The original article is in … [Read more...]
America Can End its Mass Shootings By Treating Violent Attacks like a Contagious Virus
CJ Werleman reports on the third mass shooting in a week in America in Boulder, Colorado, and explores how the country could start to stop such events happening with alarming frequency. He spoke to The Violence Project's co-founder James Densley about risk factors to mass shootings and social contagion. Read the full article here Author: CJ … [Read more...]
Why mass shootings stopped in 2020 — and why they are now roaring back
Mass shootings, which had become far less frequent in 2020, have come roaring back. On Monday, a gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., killing 10. And this comes on the heels of the Atlanta spa attacks last week that killed eight. We’ve been studying mass shootings, defined as four or more people shot and killed in a public … [Read more...]
Mass shootings in public spaces had become less frequent during the pandemic.
Until Tuesday, when eight people were killed in Atlanta-area spas, it had been a year since there had been a large-scale shooting in a public place. In 2018, the year that a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there were 10 mass shootings where four or more people were killed … [Read more...]