Mass shootings on the other hand, are something we Americans did not have much of until the last thirty years or so, and are purely human acts, statements of evil born out of the sick, depraved, lack-of-respect-for-human-life society we must all somehow live in.
We don’t have that many now, although in the last decade it does SEEM there are more, and it is rational to explore whether our “self-esteem” focus, our penchant for violent movies and video games, our love of abortion, and/or other factors have contributed to the “rise”, assuming it isn’t just a statistical anomaly.
On the other hand, as others have pointed out this isn’t the biggest number of deaths, that was back in the 1920s, when someone blew up a school. So while that wasn’t a “mass shooting”, it was a mass murder and it was more than 30 years ago.
And I bet that, at the end of this year, the statistics will still show kids are safer on a college campus than elsewhere (maybe not, I know statistics show kids are safer in primary/secondary schools than when they are out for the day, even with the occasional shooting).