Concerns regarding the trend surrounding AR-15 weapons in mass shootings

If you only focus on certain high profile cases, it may seem like every mass shooting involves an assault rifle. That's not always true. But one expert told Scoop Jefferson the way these shooters are outfitted does correlate with the amount of carnage. Sudden gunfire. Four shoppers including children at the Allen Premium Outlet Mall to run for their lives. Domestic terrorism expert Darrell Johnson. It bothers me that these attacks are happening pretty frequently, but also the fact that children get caught up in the crossfire.

Johnson is not surprised that gunmen used an AR-15 and war body armor. Wearing the tactical vest allows them to attach additional high-capacity magazines. In addition to his AR-15, investigators found two handguns on the shooter and found five weapons in his car. This mass shooting has even provoked Republican conservative Representative Frederick Fraser. Why is that one particular weapon the choice every single time? And that's something we have to take the hard look at. A look back at mass murders includes the May 2022 Ybaldi Rob elementary shooting, where an 18-year-old used two AR-15 style weapons to kill 19 students and two teachers and injure 17 others. In November 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas, inside First Baptist Church, a 26-year-old man used an AR-15 military-style rifle to kill 26 people and injure 22 others.

As far back as December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, a 20-year-old man used an AR-15 style rifle to kill 20 students and six adults. According to the National Institute of Justice, about 77% of mass shooting suspects used handguns and assault rifles are used 25% of the time. Johnson's other concern? We shouldn't have to sit there and worry in our home country that we might be attacked by a mass shooter. In Fort Worth, I'm Scoop Jefferson.

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