For anyone who's interested, this blog post piqued a very morbid interest in me, and so I decided to have a look at the data. Here's a distribution of the numb

For anyone who's interested, this blog post piqued a very morbid interest in me, and so I decided to have a look at the data. Here's a distribution of the number of days before the previous incidents (as reported by MotherJones. I'm personally not familiar with the number of shootings in the US, which according to different sources ranges from very few to way too many): http://imgur.com/Onoxv http://imgur.com/Onoxv . The colours represent the group of how many incidents happened in the 180 days prior to the incident. Here is the distribution of the number of incidents 180 days prior to an incident: http://imgur.com/9VTjQ http://imgur.com/9VTjQ Draw your own conclusions