Things to know about mass shootings Researchers say the number of mass shootings has remained fairly steady over the past three decades with occasional fluctuations. “Some years are worse than others and bad years tend to be followed by not so bad years,” said James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass shootings since […]
The Conversation Six things to know about mass shootings in America Some researchers on mass shooting, like Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, have even incorporated in their studies several types of multiple homicides that cannot be defined as mass shooting: for instance, familicide (a form of domestic violence) and gang murders.
‘Gunclingers’: Aurora, Assault Weapons and the Rise of Mass Shootings I spoke this morning with James Alan Fox, who said mass killings were not unknown in the U.S. prior to 1966 — when Charles Whitman took to the Texas tower with an arsenal and began picking off civilians — but they were exceedingly infrequent. Ever since 1976, we’ve been averaging more than 20 per year. […]