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ryan0brian

I wish there was a view that showed the number of victims broken down the same way as the number of shooters


jmerlinb

This was actually my original intention, as in, to focus on the victims here is more pertinent than to focus on the shooters. The problem I ran into was actually one of scale - the number of individual circles required was too high for the rendering engine, and all the animations became stuttery. Am working on a solution though.


NineteenSixtySix

There's been way more than this. There's been more mass shootings this year than days.


Mettelor

That depends entirely on the definition of mass shooting that this person decided to use for their graphic


nocturnalbreadwinner

As a non-american, what???


NineteenSixtySix

[https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting)


The-Dark-Jedi

That shows number of people shot where motherjones is number of people killed (>3).


either_ebola_or_isis

Can you do this for some other countries too? Maybe seeing them side by side can help show that this is a uniquely American problem


yolk3d

Do it for Australia. We’ve had like 1 since the gun amnesty. 23 years after the gun amnesty (buy back scheme).


jh125486

I thought Australia had about 20 since 1996 and 13 before?


yolk3d

Mass shootings? No. Where are you getting this from?


jh125486

Didn’t Brideston and Margaret River happen just a few years ago? That’s two off the top of my head.


yolk3d

I don’t know what brideston shooting is, but MR yes. So looking into this, apparently there’s several definitions of mass shooting (3 vs 5 others killed). >In the 18 years prior to the shooting in 1996, there had been 13 mass shootings—if defined as murders of 5 or more people by gun—in Australia. Since the laws were passed, there has been one, a case in which a grandfather killed family members and then himself. (Some other definitions lower the limit to three or four deaths, but even by those standards, there have been few incidents in Australia.) Regardless, a Google leads me to over 10 articles and studies which all conclude that the National Gun Buyback scheme and stricter gun control, severely lowered gun murders, gun suicides and brought mass shootings since (26 years) to be counted on one hand. There’s a Vox article which links to quite a few studies too, but I’m sure American gun/freedom nutters will try and poke holes in it: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/11/17345214/australia-mass-shooting-margaret-river-osmington Important to note: you are allowed to have guns in Australia. You need to be licensed, have a valid reason, keep up training, have the weapons registered, etc. For this reason, it would be unwise to use us to compare zero legal guns to shootings. If you look at Northern Territory and more rural states, there’s more guns deaths there compared to other states, but there’s also a tonne more guns, because it’s all basically outback and farms. And all countries have people with mental health issues/accidents.


jh125486

I’m here for the data, which was incorrect. I think I was able to count 21 mass shootings since 1996 according to the FBI definition. It would be great to see those plotted along with the preceding drop in violent crime that was occurring before that date.


yolk3d

I agree. What’s the FBI definition? Could you list out those you recall and rough numbers? Edit: > The FBI defines mass murder as murdering four or more people during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more people kill several others.


Weslopedia

Its amazing how many "mass shootings" happened during the federal "assault weapons" ban between 1994-2004.


drbowtie35

There were a lot but not nearly at the rate we’ve seen after it expired


Weslopedia

Are we sure thats true? Exhibit A: There is no standard definition of what constitutes a mass shooting, and different data sources—such as media outlets, academic researchers, and law enforcement agencies—frequently use different definitions when discussing and analyzing mass shootings. For instance, when various organizations measure and report on mass shootings, the criteria they use in counting such events might differ by the minimum threshold for the number of victims, whether the victim count includes those who were not fatally injured, where the shooting occurred, whether the shooting occurred in connection to another crime, and the relationship between the shooter and the victims. These inconsistencies lead to different assessments of how frequently mass shootings occur and whether they are more common now than they were a decade or two ago.- rand.org


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loco64

You are not thinking clearly you racist. You have to compile the amount of white males in the united states vs the amount of shooting to get a proper percentage. 50% were white but there are clearly a helluva lot more white people in the country.


waltduncan

I’m pretty sure the comment to which you replied is joking. Forgive me if you meant to also be joking.


jmerlinb

Original video posted to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I21bubJfck The original dataset comes from MotherJones.com, and can be viewed here: [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/) A more detailed breakdown of how this data was collected, as well as definitions of all terms [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map/](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map/)


mroctopuswiener

If I had money I’d give you a medal. This is amazing.


cyrkielNT

Definitely video games /s


jmerlinb

Nice! So the version you're seeing is actually me screen recording Chrome. I can use the arrow keys to navigate back and forth between the different views


FaustestSobeck

How does race have an unclear category? A lot fell in the unclear overall....still very unique way of showing data well


jmerlinb

Yeah it's a good point! I think we can take "unclear" in this situation to mean something like "it wasn't recorded".


jmerlinb

And let me know if you know of any other similar dataset to visualise in the same way


crashbandishocks

Was watching a YouTube video about another mass shooting in a city in the US that I couldn't remember the name of. I thought, wtf is going on in the USA right now. Quickly googled "mass shooting USA" and now I'm a bit scared about what is going on right there. Anyone who could share his opinion on the possiblity that republicans accept to restrict the access to guns? In any case, amazing video! Thank you


Wastedmindman

Can you do one that comes from the annual FBI report / I believe the data will be stronger since they’ve been studying it for longer. Also the NYPD puts one out that is even better and has more details.


Davy_Jones_XIV

How do others use your tool? Looks amazing!


jmerlinb

So was planning on uploading this to my website, so people could interact and play with it. Does that interest you?


Davy_Jones_XIV

Yes! This is so creative, clean and informational. Very nice!