Excerpt: “Data collected between 2009 and 2016 show that in 57 percent of the mass shootings in America, the perpetrator killed a current or former intimate partner or family member. This number does not include mass shootings, such as the Pulse Nightclub massacre, in which the perpetrator did not kill an intimate partner, but had a history of domestic violence. Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people in the Orlando club, had previously beaten his former wife and held her hostage.”
