2021/09/16 by Pablo A. Peña, Anupam B. Jena · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Medicine · #Gun Ownership and Violence Research #Suicide and Self-Harm Studies #Restraint-Related Deaths
paper · pdf · doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.25388
openalex publication_date 2021/09/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Mass shootings are rare events with causes that are not well understood, particularly, the extent to which they are responses to social and economic circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic imposed sudden and additional psychological and financial strains across society through fear of death, social isolation, economic hardship, and general uncertainty. Although several studies have examined how gun violence, homicides, and other crimes have responded to the pandemic, these analyses have focused on small groups of cities and have not considered mass shootings, which are an extreme form of violence whose causes may not be the same. 1-4 This cross-sectional study analyzes changes in mass shootings in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.