2019 — year with most mass killings on record

This appeared in The Millennial Source

According to research conducted by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, there were more mass killings in the United States during 2019 than in any previous year on record. The database recorded 41 mass killing incidents, which resulted in 211 deaths.

Of the 41 killings, 33 involved firearms. The United States Department of Justice defines a mass killing as three or more killings in a single event.

The 41 killings during 2019 are the most recorded in the database since it began tracking such data in 2006. Other research going back to the 1970s indicates that no other year had as many fatal incidents as 2019. According to the study, the year with the second-most mass killings was 2006, with 38.

In August 2019, 22 people died in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. A similar incident claimed the lives of 12 people in Virginia Beach in May. Other deadly incidents with high death tolls occurred in Odessa, Texas, Jersey City, New Jersey and Dayton, Ohio.

Although 2019 had the highest number of mass killings, the total number of people killed was not as many as in 2017. In that year, mass killings resulted in the deaths of 224 people. 2017 also saw the worst shooting in US history, where a…