Are Mass Shootings Contagious?

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Researchers argue that the clustering of mass shootings suggests that this type of violence spreads like a virus and should be treated as one.

Medscape used these three databases to depict how dissimilar the data can be, depending on which definition of mass shooting is used.

To interact with the graphics, click on the tableau bar and toggle the icons in the bottom right corner of the viewer. Click through the various datasets to see the frequency of mass shootings over the past five decades. Larger dots indicate events with more casualties. Sources: Mother Jones, Gun Violence Archive, Everytown for Gun Safety.

James Meindl, PhD, a professor of behavioral analysis at the University of Memphis who studies mass shootings, said parsing the differences between what happened in Uvalde and what happens during a shooting involving organized crime or domestic violence is crucial when thinking about intervention and prevention.

"If you want to intervene, you have to know why the person engaged in this behavior in the first place," Meindl said."The factors that led a person to commit gang violence, the factors in domestic violence, the factors in indiscriminate mass shootings ― those are all very different factors that would call for very different interventions.

involving the learned ability to mimic behaviors observed either in person or through the media. Behaviors"are not diseases that can spread on contact," he said.

 

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