Different ways mass shootings are coincidentally connected to other shootings via locations, victims, threats etc. (NOT THROUGH INFLUENCES)
- regina rohde survived columbine as a freshman and virginia tech as a senior
- maryellen hansen, the great aunt of veronica moser sullivan (the 6-year-old who died in aurora), used to be the principal of ken caryl middle school, where dylan klebold used to attend
- stephen paddock attended the same university as ian long and bruce pardo and attended the same high school as pardo too
- a survey showed that 1/4 norwegians knew someone affected by the norway attacks
- elliot rodger's high school, taft, got shot up in 2013
- samantha flynn survived the millard south high school shooting. four years earlier, her mother, beverly flynn, was shot and killed in westroads mall
- 27-year-old Tel Orfanos survived the las vegas shooting but got killed at the thousand oaks shooting
- 22-year-old Brendan Kelly survived the las vegas shooting and the thousand oaks shooting
there were separate shooting threats made to these schools which were attended by mass shooters:
- westview high school, attended by james holmes
- el camino college, attended by chris harper mercer
- new braunfels high school, attended by devin kelley (threatened twice on two separate instances)
- pierce college, attended by elliot rodger (threatened twice on two separate instances)
- papillion la vista high school, attended by robert hawkins
- elk grove high school, attended by steven kazmierczak
- white knoll high school, attended by dylann roof
- mountain view high school, attended by jared lee loughner (threatened THREE TIMES on THREE SEPARATE INSTANCES)
it looks like, as mass shootings get more prevalent, as do the ties the nation has with them