Originally Posted by pompousjohn

Mass shootings are not on the rise, they are as frequent as they have ever been while the population has grown, so in effect they have dropped somewhat.

Gun violence is at record lows in the US, while gun ownership is at record highs.

Why? Who knows, but one thing for sure is that criminals are generally cowards and do not like being shot at. Whether that is a factor or not is unclear to me, but there does seem to be a tendency for mass shootings to occur in gun free zones, there don't ever seem to be any armed civilians in the list of victims, which to me makes it seem that these assholes are not looking for a fight, they are looking for headlines.