Public Recent Interest Mass Shootings in Navy Yard Shooting and Other Recent Mass Shootings in Navy % following news ofeach "very closely Dec 2012: Newtown, Conn.
This is substantially less than the share who very closely followed news about shootings last December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (57%) or last July in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater (48%). About four-in-ten (44%) followed the 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas very closely.
Public Recent Interest Mass Shootings in Navy Yard Shooting and Other  | Recent Mass Shootings in Navy  | % following news ofeach "very closely  | Sep 2013: Navy Yard in D.C  | 33  | Dec 2012: Newtown, Conn.  | Dec 2012: Mall in Ore.  | 19  | Aug 2012: Sikh temple in Wis.  | 20  | Jul 2012: Movie theater in Colo.  | 48  | Apr 2012: College in Calif.  | 21  | Mar 2012: School in Ohio  | 26  | Jan 2011: Giffords event in Ariz.  | 49  | Nov 2009: Ft. Hood, Texas  | 44  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER Sept. 19-22, 2013, 