Talk:Mass shooting
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Interesting potential source
The Rockefeller Institute compared the different definitions in one handy guide. Morbid? Yes. Useful? Discuss. Bearian (talk) 20:50, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
Unable to add comment to "Talk" page of Annunciation Catholic Church shooting
I was unable to simply add a comment to the "Talk" page of Annunciation Catholic Church shooting to add a suggestion that some sourced information about the use of smoke canisters be added to that article. That's really bad! Please fix this ridiculous situation! 96.28.65.49 (talk) 02:04, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Yet another item I was not able to add to the "Talk" page of Annunciation Catholic Church shooting (since the "Talk" page of that article appears to be locked from editing): the fact that the rifle used was an AR-15. Source:https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/search-warrant-annunciation-shooter-ar-style-rifle-standard-military-ammo/89-c63dbe79-f886-41ad-8365-b37c5b64d6f4 96.28.65.49 (talk) 02:07, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
2023 Jacksonville shooting has an RfC
2023 Jacksonville shooting has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Raskuly (talk) 22:37, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
What is called a mass shooting?
The article says in the first paragraph "the term generally excludes gang violence, shootouts and warfare." It doesn't mention self-defense as being generally excluded. Would it be correct or incorrect to call a self-defense shooting a mass shooting? The reason for raising this subject is the Wiki article on the 1984 Bernie Goetz subway shooting describes the shooting as a 'mass shooting'. ~2025-33859-27 (talk) 18:02, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
- I changed the word "generally" to "sometimes" because most of the definitions cited later in the article do not draw a distinction between gang-related violence and other types of gun violence. I removed "warfare" from that list because it is already part of the definition in the prior phrase and is almost always excluded from the definition of mass shooting.
unclear definition/inconsistency?
I hate to spoil the relatively positive picture this gives of mass shootings in the UK, but there is a different wikipedia page List of mass shootings in the United Kingdom which lists a lot more than the 2 which are given on this page since 1997 (when the gun control laws were tightened). The difference seems to be that the other page includes a lot of incidents with 4 or more people hurt, but few killings: for instance one of them says "Four people were injured after a shotgun was discharged near a pub": but that seems to meet the definition given on this page? Others are domestic incidents, one person in a family killing or injuring others in the family, which were perhaps excluded but that's not obvious.
I hasten to add that I have not studied this subject and have no specialist knowledge, I just happened to notice 2 Wikipedia pages that seems to say noticeably different things about the same statistic. Alan-24 (talk) 17:08, 19 December 2025 (UTC)