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63. A few paragraphs from the link:

Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U.S. account for a small fraction of all gun murders that occur nationwide each year.

Number of incidents have gone up, but general gun deaths still outnumber mass shooting deaths.

The same definitional issue that makes it challenging to calculate mass shooting fatalities comes into play when trying to determine the frequency of U.S. mass shootings over time. The unpredictability of these incidents also complicates matters: As Rand Corp. noted in a research brief, “Chance variability in the annual number of mass shooting incidents makes it challenging to discern a clear trend, and trend estimates will be sensitive to outliers and to the time frame chosen for analysis.”

In 2020, the most recent year for which the FBI has published data, handguns were involved in 59% of the 13,620 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 3% of firearm murders. Shotguns were involved in 1%. The remainder of gun homicides and non-negligent manslaughters (36%) involved other kinds of firearms or those classified as “type not stated.”

Handguns STILL are in the lead for gun deaths. Rifles, including "assault weapons", but not all, are 3%. Suicides account for 54% in 2021, so I guess that horse is getting deader and deader.

There was no "overall decrease" from 2008 to 2014. Sure, the numbers vary from year to year (statistics!), but the "overall" trend is clearly increasing since 2005.

My bad on this, I was referring to overall deaths, not mass killings. Overall deaths still declined during the times I stated, though. An increase in mass shootings didn't seem to kick the chart up, though.