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Originally Posted by tomwed

goo to Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis - The Washington Post and look for the number of shootings since 1999

I thought they would have doubled every year. The media doesn't make that clear. I wonder how many plots were thwarted by teachers, parents, friends, ministers.....

I found this graph at your Washington Post link.

While it certainly hasn't 'doubled' each year...there IS a disturbing trend.

And admittedly, a lot of the statistics are determined...by what is defined and included as a 'mass shooting.'

More than 50 years of U.S. mass shootings in the United States - Washington Post

152 shootings

In the 50 years before the Texas tower shooting, there were just 25 public mass shootings in which four or more people were killed, according to author and criminologist Grant Duwe. Since then, the number has risen dramatically, and many of the deadliest shootings have occurred within the past few years.