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   Shooting in Oregon: So far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294   
   mass shootings   
      
   Today a shooter opened fire at a community college in Oregon.   
   Early media reports indicate numerous fatalities and a number of   
   additional people wounded. That brings the total of mass shootings   
   this year -- incidents where 4 or more people are killed or   
   injured by gunfire -- to 294.   
      
   There have been only 274 days this year. The shootings are   
   captured in this calendar, drawn from the the Mass Shooting   
   Tracker. The tracker draws some criticism because its definition   
   is broader than the FBI's definition, which requires three or more   
   people to be killed by gunfire. But the broader definition is   
   nonetheless a useful one, because it captures many high-profile   
   instances of violence — like the Lafayette theater shootings —   
   that don't meet the FBI's criteria.   
      
   Charleston. Lafayette. Virginia. Now, Roseburg Oregon. But beneath   
   the steady drumbeat of these high-profile cases lay the hundreds   
   daily mass shootings that most of us never hear about. 11 wounded   
   in a Georgia barroom. Six shot outside a Tulsa nightclub. A   
   pregnant mom and grandmother killed, an infant wounded in Chicago.   
      
   We've gone no more than eight days without one of these incidents   
   this year. On six days in September, there were 3 mass shootings   
   or more. If the initial casualty figures in Oregon hold up, that   
   would bring the total of deaths by mass shooting this year to 380   
   so far, with well over one thousand injured.   
      
   And of course, there's the broader universe of nearly 10,000   
   people killed and 20,000 wounded in nearly 40,000 gun violence   
   incidents so far this year.   
      
   These numbers only tell the smallest part of the story. And these   
   very numbers will need to be updated again tomorrow. And the day   
   after. And the day after that.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-   
   274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/   
      
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