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Sep 10, 2020 · The worst mass shooting in recent recorded history took place in Kenya on April 3, 2015. On this dire day, 148 people were killed in a terror attack committed in the name of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. The gruesome killing had four gunmen target students and staff who self-identified as Christians.
A 2016 paper from the University of Alabama compared 171 countries from 1966 to 2012 and concluded that the United States accounted for only 5% of the world’s population, but 31% of its mass shootings. CPRC has questioned the legitimacy of this report's data. Data currently includes years 2009-2015 only.
Jan 23, 2023 · News. The 30 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history include Monterey Park and Uvalde. Mark Abadi , James Pasley , Taylor Ardrey, and Grace Eliza Goodwin. Updated. Jan 23, 2023, 8:21 AM...
The fourth and deadliest mass shooting in Czech history took place on 21 December 2023, when 24-year-old David Kozák, a world history student at Charles University who was also a legal owner of several firearms, murdered his father at his home in Hostouň and later opened fire at the Faculty of Arts building of the Charles University in Prague. 16 people, including Kozák's father and Kozák himself who committed suicide at the roof of the building, died in the shootings, and 25 people were ...
Mar 24, 2021 · The U.S. has the 32nd-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 3.96 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019. That was more than eight times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47...
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Mar 15, 2019 · Mark Baker/AP. At least 49 people were shot dead Friday in a mass shooting that targeted two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The massacre became the ninth-deadliest mass...
Sep 9, 2021 · The deadliest mass shootings of the past 40 years reveal that gun violence is a global threat. Amnesty International found that globally guns kill 500 people a day and are involved in 44% of all homicides. The United States may be an "outlier" among developed nations, with over 3,150 mass shootings since 2014, reports CNN .
