Mass shootings — where four or more people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed — have averaged more than one per day since January 2022. Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings. 9...)
With eight days to go, this January has had more shootings than any other January on the database’s records. The toll is immense. In 2022 alone, mass shootings have killed 673 people and injured 2,700.
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Image: NY Times. Sources: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Univ. of Washington, Small Arms Survey, World Bank
[ed. At least we still lead the world in something (also, Defense spending - my personal bugaboo - getting pretty close to $800 billion/yr. now. I wonder if that'll come up in the debt ceiling debate? Haha...just kidding.). Yay. We're Number 1.]
