The United States had a 52% increase in “active shooter” incidents during 2021, according to FBI data.
The report was released this week, nine days after a white nationalist targeted Black shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. and killed 10 and a day before 14 students and a teacher were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, about 83 miles west of San Antonio.
The FBI found 61 incidents in 30 states during the year—nearly one-fifth of which were also mass killings. The entirety of the shootings killed 103 and wounded 140.
