Bill Maher called for a total “media blackout” on school shooters on Friday, stating that the continual attention bestowed on the perpetrators of such crimes may make the thought of committing such atrocities appealing to some people.
Maher made the remark on Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” adding that he didn’t want to see anything about the suspected shooters, especially if giving them the notoriety they want may deter the next person from opening fire in a school.
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So far this year, there have been more than 130 mass shootings in the United States, including an attack on a school in Nashville that killed three children and three adults.
According to statistics from the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research database, the number of mass shootings has increased dramatically in recent years.
There have been almost 600 mass shootings in the previous three years, over two every day on average.
While there is no uniform definition of “mass shootings” in the United States, the Gun Violence Archive defines one as an occurrence in which four or more persons are injured or killed. Their statistics cover shootings in both private residences and public areas.
The deadliest such incident, which occurred in Las Vegas in 2017, killed more than 50 people and injured 500 more. Yet, the great majority of mass shootings kill fewer than ten people.
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