Members of Emanuel AME Church mourning in the aftermath 2015 certainly looks and feels like the “year of the mass shooting.” Charleston, Roseburg, San Bernadino. These are a few of the many tragic cases of mass shootings that have rocked families and communities across the US. Each of these stories have received a ton of mass media attention; we see images of crime scenes, hear first-person accounts of survivors and the families of victims, and learn quite a bit about the deranged people behind these atrocities. Mass shootings are a sad--but all too familiar--reminder of the work ahead to end gun violence in the US. But, are mass shootings really on the rise? And are they really a big part of the gun violence epidemic? Some descriptive data helps put mass shootings in context. The folks at Mass Shooting Tracker have compiled the best data on mass shootings (events where 4 or more people get shot) in the US. To my knowledge
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