Oregon massacre: 142nd school shooting in US since 2012

Washington Thursdays massacre at a Community College in Oregon was the 142nd school shooting in America since the December 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut making for an average of nearly one a weekAs many as 88 people are killed by gun violence in America each day according to Everytown for Gun Safety a guncontrol group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg The Washington Post citing data from ShootingTrackercom said mass shootingsdefined as incidents in which four or more people are shot have happened hundreds of times over the last several yearsIn fact during President Obamas second term a SundaytoSaturday calendar week has not passed without a mass shooting incidentOnly once have seven days passed without a mass shooting and only once have eight days passedThose are the longest spansthe latter happening in April of this year Several times six days have passedA Congressional Research Service report published in 2013 counted 78 incidents between 1982 and 2014 in which 547 were killed according to the PostAbout a third of all Americans with children under 18 at home have a gun in their household including 34 percent of families with children younger than 12 according to survey data released last year by the Pew Research CentreThe most people shot in one day was on May 12 2013 with separate mass shootings in Arizona New Jersey California and Louisiana the Post saidAccording to an NBC News compilation the deadliest shooting in America was on April 16 2007 when 23yearold Virginia Tech student SeungHui Cho shot 32 people to death on the Blacksburg Virginia campus before killing himselfDec 14 2012 Adam Lanza 20 killed 28 people including himself his mother 20 elementary school kids and six school staff and faculty at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown ConnecticutOct 16 1991 George Hennard 35 crashed his pickup through a packed restaurant in Killeen Texas and shot and killed 23 people before shooting and killing himselfJuly 18 1984 James Huberty 41 a former security guard who had lost his job opened fire at a McDonalds in San Ysidro California killing 21 employees and customers including childrenAug 1 1966 Former US Marine Charles Joseph Whitman 25 killed his mother and wife then went on top of a tower at University of Texas at Austin and killed 16 othersAug 20 1986 Postman Patrick Henry Sherill killed 14 postal workers in Edmond Oklahoma and then killed himself with a shot to the headApril 20 1999 Students Eric Harris 18 and Dylan Klebold 17 killed 12 other students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado Two dozen were injuredNov 5 2009 Nidal Malik Hasan 39 killed 13 people and injured 32 others at Fort Hood TexasApril 3 2009 Jiverly Wong 41 an immigrant killed 13 people and injured four others at an immigrant services centre in Binghamton New York before killing himselfFeb 18 1983 three robbers at the Wah Mee gambling club in Seattle killed 13 peopleJuly 20 2012 James Holmes 24 sprayed bullets on a midnight screening of the new Batman movie at a theater in Aurora Colorado killing 12 and wounding 58Sep 16 2013 Aaron Alexis 34 opened fire inside the Washington Navy Yard killing 12 The former Navy reservist died in a gun battle with police