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Most Mass Shootings Are Smaller, Domestic Tragedies

Source: Brittany Mayes

Horrific as Monday's shooting near Orlando, Fla., is, it's an outlier. The vast majority of gun deaths in America are either suicides or one-on-one shootings. Mass shootings represent a small fraction of deaths by firearm.

Still, the premeditated shooting of multiple people is the kind of crime that preys on people's sense of security, so it makes sense to drill down and take a, and its data are revealing.

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