“Mass shooting” and then it’s just a map of gang shootouts
Advantageous01 on
Few/no shootings in New England and the Dakotas? Inexplicable, really. Must be the climate.
Larannas on
What definition is being used? Nearly every state has their own definition, and some states intentionally make theirs either extremely ambiguous or extremely broad so as to be able to churn out those gut-wrenching headlines.
spoilerdudegetrekt on
No correlation between mass shootings and state gun laws. Interesting.
Also, I’m curious what this would look like without gang violence.
Tom-of-Hearts on
You can really see the gamg activity from here. I wonder if any source has ever actually separated those from random acts of violence targeting the general public.
Floridaish0t on
What the hell is half a mass shooting? Or .1 for that matter?
TemperMe on
You can’t take these types of things seriously as the definition for “mass shooting” is ambiguous. Realistically (as in what the common person thinks of) a mass shooting happens very rarely each year in this country, usually 1-5 from memory.
I mean a few years ago I remember a guy killing his own family and then himself. Was labeled a mass shooting.
Most of us think of a mass shooting as someone(s) who intentionally tries to kill as many people as possible. Not family annihilators and not gang shootouts. Same goes for school shootings.
School here by me had a school shooting a few years ago. It was just a kid who had been threatened with his life so he started taking a pistol to school in his car. Well the aggressor came at him in the parking lot of school so he shot the guy. Labeled a school shooting. That’s just way to loose of a definition imo. Sure a shot was fired at school but general when we use the term it means someone came to school to intentionally kill as many people as possible.
Gahreesen on
Tag teaming Dakotas for the win!
MrMathamagician on
Kentucky and Iowa stand out regionally as notably better than other nearby states. Maybe we should figure out what they are doing right?
bellerinho on
Yet another extremely common ND W
Jealous_Tutor_5135 on
You mean to tell me that AK, the state named after an assault rifle, has never seen a mass shooting?
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SpoonGuardian on
Every map of the US is the same, I’d laugh if it wasn’t so bad
sometimesifeellikemu on
Hey, what do you know? Mississippi is not a nice place.
Evil_Ass_Wizard on
The Map ™
StarDustLuna3D on
How in the world is Florida not higher up on the scale?
blow-down on
What the fuck is going on in Louisiana and Mississippi?
ChannelSame4730 on
Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky not being higher surprise me. Otherwise checks out
Objection_Irrelevant on
Of the Mississippi ones, at least 14 of the 15 were “gang” related or retribution. Clicking through the links, and doing some searching for arrests afterward since most are just linking the initial news break of it, none of the shooters were white.
AgeOfReasonEnds31120 on
Fun fact: You’re more likely to die from a lightning strike than a mass shooting in the US.
Androo02_ on
The map strikes again
Lacroose12 on

larryburns2000 on
A lot people commenting it’s „gang shootings“. It’s not even that complicated. It’s just „beef“ between two individuals or rival friend groups.
„Interpersonal conflict“ is far more common as a motivator for shootings than gangs
Lacroose12 on
Isn’t per 1 million a bad way to measure this? It makes Delaware an extreme outlier. Maybe per 10k-50k instead ?
Alarming-While8028 on
wtf is happening in delaware
aotus_trivirgatus on
Can you possibly get five years of data instead of just one? That would reduce the noise in this data set.
ALXand3R on
Kentucky is looking all around like “We’re still cool though, right?”

Foxycotin666 on
“Counting or not counting gang violence?”
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Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025)
Why so many in Mississippi?
Kinda scary that only 5 states didn’t have one, especially since I think only one of them has over a million people?
Please show sources in the infographic.
Population density can really mess with this kind of visualization — a low-population state is just a drug-deal-gone-bad from going maroon.
2025 was a quiet year, with the lowest number of mass [killings](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/mass-killings-database) since 2006.
“Mass shooting” and then it’s just a map of gang shootouts
Few/no shootings in New England and the Dakotas? Inexplicable, really. Must be the climate.
What definition is being used? Nearly every state has their own definition, and some states intentionally make theirs either extremely ambiguous or extremely broad so as to be able to churn out those gut-wrenching headlines.
No correlation between mass shootings and state gun laws. Interesting.
Also, I’m curious what this would look like without gang violence.
You can really see the gamg activity from here. I wonder if any source has ever actually separated those from random acts of violence targeting the general public.
What the hell is half a mass shooting? Or .1 for that matter?
You can’t take these types of things seriously as the definition for “mass shooting” is ambiguous. Realistically (as in what the common person thinks of) a mass shooting happens very rarely each year in this country, usually 1-5 from memory.
I mean a few years ago I remember a guy killing his own family and then himself. Was labeled a mass shooting.
Most of us think of a mass shooting as someone(s) who intentionally tries to kill as many people as possible. Not family annihilators and not gang shootouts. Same goes for school shootings.
School here by me had a school shooting a few years ago. It was just a kid who had been threatened with his life so he started taking a pistol to school in his car. Well the aggressor came at him in the parking lot of school so he shot the guy. Labeled a school shooting. That’s just way to loose of a definition imo. Sure a shot was fired at school but general when we use the term it means someone came to school to intentionally kill as many people as possible.
Tag teaming Dakotas for the win!
Kentucky and Iowa stand out regionally as notably better than other nearby states. Maybe we should figure out what they are doing right?
Yet another extremely common ND W
You mean to tell me that AK, the state named after an assault rifle, has never seen a mass shooting?
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Every map of the US is the same, I’d laugh if it wasn’t so bad
Hey, what do you know? Mississippi is not a nice place.
The Map ™
How in the world is Florida not higher up on the scale?
What the fuck is going on in Louisiana and Mississippi?
Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky not being higher surprise me. Otherwise checks out
Of the Mississippi ones, at least 14 of the 15 were “gang” related or retribution. Clicking through the links, and doing some searching for arrests afterward since most are just linking the initial news break of it, none of the shooters were white.
Fun fact: You’re more likely to die from a lightning strike than a mass shooting in the US.
The map strikes again

A lot people commenting it’s „gang shootings“. It’s not even that complicated. It’s just „beef“ between two individuals or rival friend groups.
„Interpersonal conflict“ is far more common as a motivator for shootings than gangs
Isn’t per 1 million a bad way to measure this? It makes Delaware an extreme outlier. Maybe per 10k-50k instead ?
wtf is happening in delaware
Can you possibly get five years of data instead of just one? That would reduce the noise in this data set.
Kentucky is looking all around like “We’re still cool though, right?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?”