US Mass public shootings since Columbine: victims per incident by race and ethnicity of the perpetrator.

Autor: Jewett PI; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America. Electronic address: Jewet050@umn.edu., Gangnon RE; Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America; Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States of America., Borowsky IW; Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America., Peterson J; Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Hamline University, Saint Paul, United States of America., Areba EM; School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America., Kiragu A; Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota; Hennepin Healthcare; Children's Minnesota, United States of America., Densley J; School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Preventive medicine [Prev Med] 2022 Sep; Vol. 162, pp. 107176. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 22.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107176
Abstrakt: White individuals in the United States (US) have historically had disproportionate access to firearms. The real-life availability of firearms, including those most lethal, may still be greater among White populations, manifesting in the number of victims in shootings. We compared the severity of US mass public shootings since Columbine by race and/or ethnicity of the perpetrator using The Violence Project Database of Mass Shooters, assessing fatalities (minimum four), total victims, type, and legal status of guns used. We used data visualization and Quasi-Poisson regression of victims minus four - accounting for truncation at 4 fatalities - to assess fatality and total victim rates comparing Non-Hispanic (NH) White with NH Black shooters, using winsorization to account for outlier bias from the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. In 104 total mass public shootings until summer 2021, NH White shooters had higher median fatalities (6 [IQR 5-9] versus 5 [IQR 4-6]) and total victims (9 [IQR 6-19] versus 7 [IQR 5-12]) per incident. Confidence intervals of NH Black versus NH White fatalities rate ratios (RR) ranged from 0.17-1.15, and of total victim RRs from 0.15-1.04. White shooters were overrepresented in mass public shootings with the most victims, typically involving legally owned assault rifles. To better understand the consequences when firearms are readily available, including assault rifles, we need a database of all US gun violence. Our assessment of total victims beyond fatalities emphasizes the large number of US gun violence survivors and the need to understand their experiences to capture the full impact of gun violence.
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