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Monday, November 1, 2021

Mapping America's Volume Murders

Yesterday's majority shooting yesteryear Aaron Alexis at the Naval Sea Systems Command inwards Washington DC has 1 time once again raised the interrogation of why the U.S. is prone to too thus many occurrences of majority murder. Although I'm non certain how far majority killing maps tin toilet meet helping to explicate why these incidents occur, mapping is 1 means that the media tin toilet assistance highlight the staggering release of majority killing incidences inwards America.


USA Today has created what is in all probability the best interactive map of majority killings inwards America. The U.S. Mass Killings since 2006 Map maps majority killings inwards the U.S. since 2006. The map includes a release of filters that permit the user to filter the information yesteryear location, type too method.


The Guardian's US Gun Crime Map looks at American gun offense on a to a greater extent than state-by-state basis. The map looks at firearm murders inwards 2011 too 2012 inwards the U.S.. The map includes 2 heatmap views, 1 stance shows the per centum alter inwards each solid soil of gun related murders betwixt 2011 too 2012. The other stance shows the release of firearm murders equally a per centum of all murders inwards each state.

Mother Jones has created a uncomplicated map of Mass Shootings inwards America. Probably of to a greater extent than involvement than the actual map is the information behind it. Mother Jones is maintaining a database of USA Mass Shootings since 2008. The information includes information virtually the release of victims, the weapon used too the location.


The Mother Jones information provides the potential for somebody to laid upwards a meliorate map. The Atlantic Wire has used the Mother Jones information to practise an animated map that highlights all the majority killings that conduct hold taken house since Barack Obama took office.