Title: Another: The 45th School Shooting in America in 2015
Headings: Another: The 45th School Shooting in America in 2015
Another: The 45th School Shooting in America in 2015
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Content: While the FBI measures a "mass shooting" as an incident when people are killed, the tracker classifies a mass shooting as an event when four or more people are shot. Using that criteria, the tracker reports that 294 known mass shootings have occurred this year. "America is the only developed country where when someone asks if you heard about that campus shooting, you have to clarify, 'Which one?' That is unacceptable. Something has to change," Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, said in a statement. "We need to all come together for the Umpqua families today. Then we need to all demand action from our elected officials before the next tragedy happens," he added. The school shooting is the 142nd since 20 children and six educators died in the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, according to Everytown. Newsweek subscription offers >
Between January 2009 and July 2015, there were at least 134 mass shootings, according to an analysis compiled by Everytown. Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head four years ago outside of a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday asked, "This is not the America we all strive for, is it?"