Since 2013, the year after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, mass shootings in the United States have nearly tripled.
were killed in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The shooting comes a little more than a week after another mass shooting at a New York state grocery store, and is the latest in a long history of violence in the U.S. and at American schools.A mass shooting is described as a gun violence incident in which four or more people are injured or killed, excluding the suspect or perpetrator.
If these incidents continue at the same rate throughout the rest of 2022, the country will reach 540 mass shootings this year. Since 2013, the year after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, mass shootings in the United States have nearly tripled. Already, there have been 213 mass shooting incidents in 2022 -- a 50% increase from 141 shootings by May 2017 and a 150% increase from 84 by May 2013.
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