is one of six countries that make up more than half of worldwide gun deaths.

A 2018 study, for example, found that the U.S. (The database defines mass shootings as “indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed by the attacker” in 2013, the database started counting incidents in which three people were killed.)Ĭomparisons of gun violence don’t usually come out in the United States’ favor. Overall, the shootings resulted in more than 800 deaths. According to an open-source database that Mother Jones created, 103 mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1990, 90 of them since 1997. But international comparisons are still fairly easy to make, and the discrepancy is often tremendous. As I’ve reported before, accurately counting mass shootings in America is a murky process, for reasons both logistical and political. The contrast with the history of mass shootings in the United States is striking. Read: How white-supremacist violence echoes other forms of terrorism Since then, New Zealand has experienced approximately four incidents of gun violence in which more than five people were killed. After that shooting, the country amended its laws to limit firearm access.

Until now, the deadliest mass shooting in the country had been in 1990, when a gunman in the small township of Aramoana killed 13 people and injured three. The most recent mass shooting was in 1997, when six people were murdered and four wounded in the North Island town of Raurimu. This is the deadliest shooting in the modern history of New Zealand, a country where gun violence is rare and annual gun homicides don’t usually reach the double digits. Police have said that four suspects have been taken into custody and that a man in his late 20s has been charged with murder. At least 49 people were killed and 20 injured in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.

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