NFPA Journal - Spring 2023 - 8

Dispatches
PUBLIC SAFETY
WARNING SIGNS
A NEW FEDERAL REPORT ON MASS ATTACKS OFFERS INSIGHTS
THAT COULD HELP COMMUNITIES IDENTIFY POTENTIAL PERPETRATORS
AND STOP THEM BEFORE THEY ACT
By Jesse Roman
I
n late January, California Gov.
Gavin Newsom was at a hospital,
meeting with survivors of a shooting
attack that killed 11 people in
the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey
Park. During the visit, an aide pulled him aside
to deliver more bad news: In Half Moon Bay, a
small coastal community south of San Francisco,
a farmworker had allegedly pulled out a gun and
shot seven more people to death. Then, just hours
later, it happened again: a gunman in Oakland
killed one person and injured seven others. In a
span of 44 hours, 19 people in California died in
three separate mass shooting incidents.
" Nothing about this is surprising. Everything
about this is infuriating, " Newsom told reporters.
Almost twice per day on average, someone
points a gun at a group of people somewhere in
the United States and indiscriminately sprays bullets.
In the first three weeks of this year, 40 mass
shootings-defined by the Gun Violence Archive
as four or more people shot or killed, not including
the shooter, in a single incident-occurred
across the US, the most to begin any year on
record. At the current pace, 2023 incidents will
surpass the 647 mass shootings recorded last year
and the 692 that occurred in 2021, according to
the archive, an independent nonprofit data and
research group that tracks shooting incidents.
This violence both baffles and infuriates us, and
yet for as often as it occurs, we seem no closer to
understanding it. Who are the people carrying
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