States with gun background checks have 52 percent less mass shootings: report

Gun control advocates examined data from January 2009 and 15 July – states that checked for a criminal history had 64% fewer domestic violence shootings
States with background checks for all handgun sales had 52 percent fewer mass shootings as states with more lax rules, according to a report by reform advocates who examined more than six years of data.  Researchers for Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that supports gun control checks, also found that between January 2009 and 15 July those states that checked for a criminal history in buyers had 64 percent fewer mass shootings related to domestic violence.

More than one in three of the gunmen in mass shootings had a history of felonies, domestic violence or mental illness that should have prohibited them from owning a gun, according to the gun control group. The researchers relied on the FBI’s definition of a mass shooting – an incident in which at least four people are murdered by a gun – and found 133 such shootings in the six years and seven months of the analysis. They also controlled for population differences between states when accounting for percentages. The website Shootingtracker.com uses the less conservative definition of four people shot, but not necessarily killed, and has tallied more than 1,000 mass shootings since the December 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, when a gunman murdered 26 people, mostly children, at an elementary school in Connecticut.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/states-with-gun-background-checks-have-52-percent-less-mass-shootings-report/

no kidding. But the NRA refuses to step up to the plate.

How many more innocents will die before this gets fixed? Too many