US mass shootings most important event of 2015: Poll
The majority of Americans say the most important events of 2015 were the mass shootings in the United States, including the attack in San Bernardino, California, according to a new poll.
The Associated Press-Times Square Alliance poll found that 68 percent listed mass shootings in the US as “very or extremely important” news events this year, including the ones in San Bernardino, California; Charleston, South Carolina; Roseburg, Oregon; and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
"At this point, I'm numb to all of it," said 32-year-old J.P. Fury, one of the people surveyed. "This is nothing new. Every week there's a new shooting somewhere in America, and there's a new terrorist attack somewhere around the world."
The poll also shows that 44 percent of Americans rate as extremely or very important the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police which have sparked protests across the US in the past two years.
Americans are also much less likely than they were a year ago to believe that the current year was better for the United States. Only 17 say this year was better for their country, compared to 30 percent who said so last year.
On a personal level, fewer than a third (29 percent) believe 2015 was better for them than 2014, while 21 percent feel it was worse, compared with 15 percent in 2014.
The United States is by far the global leader in mass shootings, with five percent of the world’s population but with nearly a third of all gun-related massacres in the last 50 years, a recent study has found.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides, which are on the increase.
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