Paper On Mass Shooting

This past saturday around 7pm a rifle toting gunman walked into Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. The shooter was able to shoot four women and kill one man before he stopped his rampage, police were saying his motive is unclear and his victims were random victims. With shooting random people and having very little knowledge of the shooter at this time other than a poor video surveillance shot of his body, it will be hard to find out who he is unless he comes forward or someone see’s the video and recognizes him.

FBI and other local and federal agencies are trying to assist in the manhunt. The whole mall had to be searched Saturday, throughout the night they looked through every room of the 434,000 square foot mall. While they were searching the mall they recovered the rifle the gunman used to kill and assault the victims, this will greatly help the search along with the video because they might be able to pull DNA from the rifle that could connect the shooter to the shooting. …show more content…
According to CNN “From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world's mass shootings took place in the U.S. This is according to a 2016 study that used the FBI definition of 'mass shooting' below. It surveyed 292 incidents and found 90 of them occurred in America. Put another way: While the U.S. has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings.” (Willingham, 2016). These statistics are absolutely shocking, why is it that the U.S. population makes up %5 of the world but the U.S. makes up %31 of all public mass shootings. Many believe the mass shootings that happen in the U.S. are connected the the amount of Guns that are produced and sold in the United States. Weather or not this is a direct or indirect correlation it’ll be hard to find