Causes Of Mass Shootings In The US

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There was a lot of mass shootings in the US. Almost all of them have injured or killed about 934 people,and there has been about 71 shootings all this time. Thats a lot of people injured or killed.

One of them is the Las Vegas Shooting .It happened in October 1,2017 it happened in a country music concert. There was 58 people killed and 500 injured. The killer was a 64 year old man named Stephen Craig Paddock of Mesquite, he fired himself in his garage 10 pm. All the people were scared and sad because they lost a family member or friend. Almost everybody left there stuff and ran.

Another one was the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. It happened in December 14, 2012. There were 20 six and seven year old killed in the shooting,and

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