{"id":4015,"date":"2025-12-02T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:42:02","slug":"us-mass-killings-drop-to-20-year-low-in-2025-database-gun-violence-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"US mass killings drop to 20-year low in 2025: Database | Gun Violence News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Experts say dip likely a return to more typical levels after unusual spike in  preceding years, warn gun violence remains a major issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 2 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">2 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div 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aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The United States has witnessed the lowest number of mass killings in 2025 in two decades, according to a database tracking such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>A recent shooting at a family gathering in Stockton, California, that left four people dead, was the 17th mass killing this year, The Associated Press \u2013 which maintains the database alongside USA Today and Northeastern University \u2013 reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>While that figure could yet rise in December, it is a drop of nearly 59 percent from 2019, when a record 41 mass killings occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The database uses police and FBI reports, media articles and court records to track mass killings, defined as incidents in which four or more people were killed intentionally within a 24-hour period, not including any offender.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"regression-to-the-mean\">\u2018Regression to the mean\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who manages the database, told AP that the tally for 2025 was down about 24 percent compared with 2024, which in turn was about a 20 percent drop compared with 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He said the drop in numbers was likely what statisticians call a \u201cregression to the mean\u201d, representing a return to more average crime levels after an unusual spike in the preceding years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill 2026 see a decline?\u201d Fox said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t bet on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Densley, a professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, told the news agency that as the database tracked a rare phenomenon, the figures could be volatile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there\u2019s only a few dozen mass killings in a year, a small change could look like a wave or a collapse,\u201d when it was actually a return to more typical levels, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2025 looks really good in historical context, but we can\u2019t pretend like that means the problem is gone for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"improved-mass-casualty-responses\">Improved mass casualty responses<\/h2>\n<p>Some factors could be contributing to the drop, though, he said, including an overall decline in homicide and violent crime, which peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements in the response to mass casualty incidents could also be playing a part, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He cited a shooting during a Mass at a school in Minnesota in August in which two children were killed and more than 20 injured \u2013 a crime that would not be recorded on the database due to there being only two deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason only two people were killed is because of the bleeding control and trauma response by the first responders,\u201d he said, adding that the fact the shooting \u201chappened on the doorsteps of some of the best children\u2019s hospitals in the country\u201d also helped.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Madfis, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Washington-Tacoma, told AP that while gun violence and associated deaths in the US were down, \u201cwe still have exceedingly high rates and numbers of mass shootings compared to anywhere else in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 82 percent of mass killings in the US in 2025 involved a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Since the database was launched in 2006, 3,234 people have died in mass killings, with 81 percent of them shooting victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say dip likely a return to more typical levels after unusual spike in preceding years, warn gun violence remains a major issue. 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