1,000 mass shootings in 1,260 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like
Sunday’s attack on the
Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida was the
deadliest mass shooting in American history – but there were five
other mass shootings in the US during that weekend alone.
“We have a pattern now
of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the
world,” Barack Obama said after
the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.
Data compiled by the
Gun Violence Archive via the crowd-sourced website
ShootingTracker.com reveals a
shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people
shot in one incident, not including the shooter – on five out of every six
days, on average. (Updated on 13 June 2016)