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A Mass Shooting Epidemic

Emergency managers get involved in these too.

Here is a sobering factoid for all of us to consider. In not quite four months, there have been in the United States:

  • 150 mass shootings (defined as four or more people)
  • 592 people wounded
  • 181 killed

You can blame it all on any number of causes, but we are not seeing this happen in other countries. So what is the cause? How do we differ from other nations? Lack of mental health services, easy access to guns, unhappy Americans?

Flooding is the most common hazard that emergency managers have to deal with on the natural hazard spectrum. Mass shootings is ramping up the other side of the continuum.