So far under trump, mass shootings have plummeted with the sharpest year over year decline in a decade, and the fewest since any year on recordBut experts are totally and completely befuddled given that no new gun control laws were passed, meaning gun control laws had nothing to do with thishttps://www.newsweek.com/mass-shooting-dropped-2025-school-violence-gun-control-11198530Mass Killings Plummeted in 2025, Despite No New Gun Control LawsMass killings in the United States dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2025, even as Congress failed to enact any new federal gun control laws.Seventeen incidents met the threshold for mass killing this year, down from 42 in 2023 and the fewest since national tracking began in 2006, according to recent data from the Mass Killing Database, a project led by Northeastern University in collaboration with USA Today and the Associated Press.“This is not a victory lap for gun reform—it’s a return to a more typical level,” said James Alan Fox, a research professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern who oversees the database, in an interview with Newsweek.Researchers say the drop is less about federal legislation — or the lack thereof — and more about a statistical "settling" after pandemic-era volatility. The decline, they argue, reflects a regression to the mean following several years of elevated violence, paired with localized policy shifts and evolving patterns in how mass killings occur.“We had a spike after the pandemic, and we’re now back at pre-COVID levels,” Fox said. “But that doesn’t mean we’re safe. These events are still tragic, and they can still happen.”The database defines a mass killing as an incident in which four or more people are killed within a 24-hour period, excluding the perpetrator. Unlike narrower definitions limited to firearms, this dataset includes attacks involving fire, vehicles, blunt force and other means.
Fox, who has studied mass violence for more than 40 years, emphasized that most of these incidents don’t resemble the high-profile public shootings that dominate headlines. Nearly half occur within families or involve domestic disputes. Of the 17 cases recorded in 2025, only four happened in public spaces.“Those are the ones that scare people—schools, restaurants, churches,” Fox said. “They dominate the headlines because they feel random and close to home. But they’re the exception. Family-related massacres are far more common.”Multiple FactorsMass killings are rare but unpredictable. James Densley, a criminologist at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, noted that even small changes in such low-frequency events can appear dramatic. “2025 looks really good in historical context,” Densley told the AP. “But we can’t pretend the problem is gone.”Fox agrees. “Big drops are often followed by upticks,” he said. “If we go into 2026 and the number rises, that wouldn’t surprise me. But if it’s a modest increase, that would still count as progress.”Several factors may have contributed to this year’s decline, including a broader drop in violent crime, improved trauma response and increased investment in behavioral threat assessments. One such example occurred in Minneapolis, where more than 20 people were injured in an August school shooting—but only two died. Densley credited first responders and the nearby pediatric trauma infrastructure for saving lives. That shooting was not included in the database, given its death toll.School-based threat assessments have also expanded in recent years, with at least 22 states now requiring them. The approach focuses on early intervention and behavioral evaluation, and advocates say it may be helping prevent some school-based violence. Notably, no school-related mass killings were recorded in 2025.
>Far right Conservatives no longer going on mass killing sprees because there is a far right conservative government.What is it with far right conservatives and them spamming AI slop?
>>1465816To be fair there's still plenty of attempted mass shooting sprees, leftists just can't aim
>>1465817>still pushing the leftist forced memeSo we just need to grab the guns from rightoids.Great observation russian shill.
>>1465816>Trump gets into office>leftists start rioting and shooting people>Trump leaves office, Biden comes in>leftists stop rioting and shooting people>Trump comes back into office>leftists start rioting and shooting people
Turns out the best policy to stop mass killings wasn't additional anti gun legislation, it was just voting Democrats out of office
>>1465824>Still pushing the leftist force memeAlmost 8 pm in moscow
>>1465828>Still too retarded to use capitalization or punctuation.
>>1465830>Complaining about syntax while using a sentence fragmentNta, but syntax only exists to enhance the clarity of writing, and outside of that it's useless for anything other than signaling. Language prescriptivists are morons.
>>1465830moscow does not require capitalization
>>1465816>find the clickbait>post the clickbait>defend the clickbaitIt's a cycle
>>1465803Thank you, MR. PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump!
>>1465837I don't have time to explain the common posting habits of this particular anon that identifies him every time as the same troll that contributes nothing to any debate. Lurk moar.
>>1465803https://www.statista.com/statistics/811487/number-of-mass-shootings-in-the-us/
>>1465921Interesting results… Very conclusive!
>deport illegals at their domestic violence hearing >crime goes down2 - 1 = 1?Just FYI that domestic abusers are literally the worst because if they are violent to their family they will do crimes outside the home.
>>1466084>only migrants do mass shootingsHilarious, Mr. Miller, got any more?
>>1465816wow who'd of guessed when you're tough on crime, less crimes happen.
>>1466085Keep fighting to keep illegal domestic abusers.
>>1465803>Mass killings in the United States dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2025, even as Congress failed to enact any new federal gun control laws.Damn, it's almost like guns have never been the problem?
>>1465921Do you have stats broken down by ethnicity of the shooters?
>>1465921Yeah I'm not seeing any sort of downward trend on that graph. Looks like it's pretty normal for there to be years with just a few and that doesn't stop the overall trend from increasing in the years there are more than a few.
>>1466155No, no. It sounds like the gun laws are finally kicking in, my guy.
>>1466126Keep overlooking Trump's corruption and the vast increase in white collar crime while you blame immigrants for all the problems
>>1465803It's almost like most mass shooters were right wing loons and having a right wing loon in charge makes them feel like the world is going to be ok and they don't need to shoot a bunch of children in the face.
>>1466202>the gun laws are finally kicking in, my guy.LOLWHAT????
>>1466202>>my guy.My Man!
>>1466202The gun laws have been on the books for decades and yet the murder rate goes up and down regardless.Guns are not and have never been the problem.
