America Has Seen at Least 601 Mass Shootings in This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn NPR
Robb Elementary School on June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)
That's according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed, not including the shooter.
Mass shootings have devastated communities in nearly every corner of the nation this year. A racist attack at a Buffalo, N.Y. supermarket killed 10 people and injured three more on May 14. Ten days later, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, making it the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since Sandy Hook. The attack that killed five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday was only the latest mass shooting in the Gun Violence Archive database.
A total list of mass shootings in 2022 can be found here.
The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings. The previous year had 610. And 2019 had 417.