Over the 4th of July weekend, a mass shooting in Deep Ellum left one person killed and several more injured. It’s the most recent mass shooting in Dallas, but there have been four more mass shootings in Texas since then.
Texas had 31 mass shootings last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), second to California’s 34.
There isn’t one definition of “mass shooting” that has been adopted across the board. For example, the FBI defines a mass shooting as a shooting incident in which four or more people are murdered, not just shot. The GVA, a nonprofit research group that collects reports of gun violence events from more than 7,500 law enforcement, media and government sources to provide real-time information on its website, has a different take on how to define a mass shooting than the FBI does…