The first item that we have to clarify is what classifies a mass murder. The definition that we will use is a perpetrator who intentionally kills at least three victims other than him or her self in a single incident. We will narrow the scope to those who used firearms as their choice of weaponry in order to exclude bombings, car accidents, and planes. The results were that from 1949 to 1998 there were thirty mass murderers. Out of those thirty twenty of them were committed during 1985. All the mass murderers in the specific study that the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online found them to be males. Approximately twenty-three were white or 77%, five were black or 15%, and the two remaining murderers were Asian. Ten
