More US children die at home in mass shootings than at school, study says
- Only 1 per cent of the nearly 350,000 US gun deaths over the past decade involved mass shootings, two-thirds of which took place entirely in homes
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 on Thursday by the gun control group Everytown.
“These are not random acts of violence, yet people have the perception that the killings come out of nowhere,” said Sarah Burd-Sharps, Everytown’s research director. “That is simply not the truth.”
The Everytown report, based on police and court records, as well as media reports, found that 54 per cent 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 – one-third of whom were children or teens.
Nearly two-thirds of all mass shootings took place entirely inside homes, the study found.