The point of our map in the first place was that mass shootings happen more frequently than people realize. We highlighted the attacks in Colorado Springs and Charleston, S.C., as examples of other politically motivated attacks that weren’t linked to radical Islam. (That map included mass shooting incidents in which four or more people were injured, which is why it contains more data points.) The point of the edits that someone made to our map was that very few of these mass killings have been linked to radical Islam. That the apparent suspect was the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants prompted some suspicion that his motivation was radical Islamic beliefs.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2016 17:54 UTC