It would make it easier to discuss such issues if there was a general agreement about how they are defined.
According to a Rand Corporation report on the issue, “the government has never defined mass shooting as a separate category, and there is not yet a universally accepted definition of the term.”
The New York Times, in an article about the Osmington shootings, noted “Experts typically define a mass shooting as the deaths of four people, excluding the gunman, in a single event.”.
