Craig Andresen

A Thinner Thin Blue Line

What constitutes a mass shooting? By the numbers, a mass shooting is any shooting event in which four or more people are hit by bullets. Again, by the numbers, Chicago has had 212 such mass shootings in which at least four people have been struck by gunfire since 2016, and in those 212 shootings, a total of 1032 people have been shot, with 126 of them dying of their injuries.

None of that takes into account the number of shootings or deaths connected to them in which fewer than four people were hit. Read the full commentary here.