Just a few years ago we were averaging less than one a day.

"Mass shootings, as is well known by now, are a common recurrence in the
United States. We ended 2021 with 692 mass shootings, per the Gun
Violence Archive. The year before saw 610. And 2019 had 417.

The massacres don't come out of nowhere, says Mark Follman, who has been researching mass shootings since 2012, when a gunman killed 12 people at
a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

"This is planned violence. There is, in every one of these cases, always
a trail of ... behavioral warning signs," he told NPR in May.

Follman, the author of a new book, Trigger Points, says the role of
mental health is also widely misunderstood.

"The general public views mass shooters as people who are totally crazy, insane. It fits with the idea of snapping, as if these people are
totally detached from reality."

That's not the case, he said. There's "a very rational thought process"
that goes into planning and carrying out mass shootings.

The suspect in the Uvalde attack is a high school student who bought at
least two AR-15-style rifles shortly after his 18th birthday and shot
his grandmother before going to the elementary school, officials said.

The suspect in the Buffalo attack left behind a racist screed, donned
body armor, and livestreamed the attack."

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099008586/mass-shootings-us-2022-tally-number

"MASS SHOOTINGS IN 2022" The full list:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Their homepage is interesting too:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

TB

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