Mass shootings: US the worst in the world by far

Mass shootings

Over the past four decades, no other country as experienced as many mass shootings as the United States. Irish news publication thejournal.ie recently conducted an interview with the former headmaster of the Columbine High School in Colorado, the scene of a deadly mass shooting in 1999. The following infographic was featured in the piece and you can read it here.

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This chart shows countries with the most mass shootings from 1966 to 2012.

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