HotAirhttps://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/02/mass-shooting-instances-are-not-rising-but-theyre-probably-not-going-away/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:27:46 -0400Mass shooting instances are not rising, but they're probably not going away<![CDATA[James Alan Fox: I started studying mass murder in the early 1980s (along with Northeastern University colleague Jack Levin) to see if there were any common traits and characteristics to the crimes or the perpetrators. There had been a pervasive sense back then that mass murderers were crazed lunatics who suddenly snapped, went berserk, and killed indiscriminately. By studying 42 cases that had occurred in recent years (recent back then, anyway), we found that many common assumption were quite off the mark&#8230;]]>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:40:20 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/02/mass-shooting-instances-are-not-rising-but-theyre-probably-not-going-away-n99801