A San Mateo County Sheriff officer puts up police tape at a crime scene after a shooting at the Spanish Town shops in Half Moon Bay, California, on January 24, 2023. - A suspected gunman was in custody Monday over the killing of seven people in a rural community in northern California, just two days after a mass shooting at a Lunar New Year celebration near Los Angeles. (Photo by Samantha Laurey / AFP) (Photo by SAMANTHA LAUREY/AFP via Getty Images)
  • A new study from the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center examined 173 public attacks occurring between January 2016 and December 2020 and found repeating patterns.
  • Almost all attackers acted alone and were men. Nearly 73 percent of attacks involved firearms.
  • The study says that nearly half of attackers had a history of perpetuating misogyny and/or domestic violence, and that those behaviors “deserve increased attention” from law enforcement. 
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