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In US, guns kill more at home than in schools
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Three out of four US children and teens killed in mass shootings over the past decade were victims of domestic violence and generally died in their homes, according to a study released yesterday by the gun control group Everytown.
While the specter of school shootings looms darkly in the minds of American parents who remember massacres in Newtown, Connecticut, in Parkland, Florida, and around the country, the group鈥檚 review of shootings from 2009 through 2018 found far more children are killed in their own homes.
鈥淭hese are not random acts of violence, yet people have the perception that the killings come out of nowhere,鈥 said Sarah Burd-Sharps, Everytown鈥檚 research director. 鈥淭hat is simply not the truth.鈥
The Everytown report, based on police and court records, as well as media reports, found that 54 percent of mass shootings involved the shooter killing a family member or intimate partner.
A total of 1,121 people were killed in 194 mass shootings in the decade examined 鈥 one-third of whom were children or teens.
Nearly two-thirds of all mass shootings took place entirely inside homes, the study found.
Burd-Sharps said Everytown hopes its report helps the public gain more understanding about the statistical realities of mass shootings, which it defines as an incident that kills at least four people, excluding the shooter.
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