Stats
So I used information from this website here:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0057.html
The website may not be there anymore but I copied the table of incidents onto a excel page. I am not taking any credit for the gathering of the information. I was just simply curious of what guns are most common and how fatal they are compared to the weapons frequency. This also is not meant to be slanderous towards any victims in any of the events.
I started with a list of these shootings and took three different categories: schools, public places, and private places. With these three locations I also searched the list for the types of firearms. The most common and frequent being: Semi- auto Pistol, Semi-auto Rifle, shotgun and revolver. I found the following about each.
School Public Place Private Place
SA Pistol: 54% 52% 67%
SA Rifle: 7% 17% 11%
Shotgun: 14% 9% 11%
Revolver: 7% 13% 6%
This means that for example: If there was a shooting in a Private Place, there would be a 67% chance that the weapon used would be a Semi-Auto Pistol.
I also found that in 49 incidents there were 87 weapons used. This would equal about 1 ¾ weapons per event.
Clearly the SA Pistol is the most commonly used firearm in any location of shooting. This got me wondering about how deadly these are, so I came up with another list. I found the 10 most common single weapon/weapon combinations and sorted them out. Out of the 49 events, 43 fell into a category of a common combo of weaponry, and these 43 accounted for 318 deaths.
Here are the combinations:
Weapon(s) Times Used (Out of 49) Deaths Caused (Out of 318)
SA Pistol Only: 24 times 56% 167 deaths 53%
SA Rifle Only: 5 times 12% 48 deaths 15%
SA Pistol, SA Rifle & Shotgun: 3 times 7% 32 deaths 10%
SA Pistol & Revolver: 3 times 7% 27 deaths 8%
SA Pistol, Revolver & Shotgun: 1 time 2% 8 deaths 2%
Revolver Only: 2 times 5% 4 deaths 1%
SA Pistol & SA Rifle: 1 time 2% 4 deaths 1%
Shotgun & Revolver: 1 time 2% 5 deaths 2%
SA Pistol & Shotgun: 2 times 5% 16 deaths 5%
SA Rifle & Shotgun: 1 time 2% 7 deaths 2%
Using this I came up with a very simple equation for fatality. It is Deaths/Times, and the results are in order of most fatal to least are below.
Deaths/Times Combination
11 SA Pistol, SA Rifle and Shotgun
10 SA Rifle Only
9 SA Pistol and Revolver
8 SA Pistol, Revolver and Shotgun
8 SA Pistol and Shotgun
7 SA Pistol Only
7 SA Rifle and Shotgun
5 Revolver and Shotgun
4 SA Pistol and SA Rifle
2 Revolver Only
Some may read all of this differently than me. My conclusion from this study is that over half of any shooting has been with a SA pistol, but they are nowhere near the most deadly. The most deadly combination is the SA Pistol and Rifle along with a shotgun, but this combination is rare only occurring 7% of the time.
That’s what I got. If you have any more questions feel free to ask. This is not supposed to change any load outs or any responses, but to give a mental picture of what the most common and deadly shooting incidents have contained.