This year has been tied for the second-worst year for gun violence in the eight years since the Gun Violence Archive began recording data.
So far this year, there have been 610 mass shootings in the U.S.
The 610 mass shootings so far this year are equal to the 610 recorded in 2020, which is tied for the second worst year since the Gun Violence Archive began recording gun violence data.
The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an event that killed or injured at least four people.
There have been 39,955 deaths from gun-related events in the US this year.
The victims were mostly children and teens.
There have been more mass shootings this year than in the previous year, but the number of gun deaths this year is less than in the previous year.
35,350. That is how many people were injured in gun-related incidents this year. It is less than last year and the year before.
Six people were killed and at least four were injured when a man opened fire in a Walmart break room in Virginia. It was the second mass shooting this week, after a man in Colorado Springs killed five people and injured more than two dozen when he fired a long rifle inside a gay bar. Those shootings sparked a national debate about gun violence, background checks and assault rifles, which have been dubbed killers' "weapons of choice."
The attack that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, and the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uval spurred calls to reform the country's gun laws. Congress passed a gun control bill in June that included provisions to strengthen background checks for gun buyers younger than 21, close the so-calledboyfriend loophole that had allowed people convicted of domestic abuse to own a gun as long as they aren't married to the person they abused, and invest money into Gun control legislation has been controversial. There was an assault weapon ban bill that passed the House of Representatives but failed to get Senate approval, after GOP members of Congress argued it would take weapons away from people who need them for self- defense.
In terms of gun violence, the U.S. leads other large Western countries. Four out of every 100,000 people are killed by gun violence in the U.S. every year. That is eight times the number of gun deaths recorded each year in Canada, and a massive step above European countries such as Switzerland, Norway, and Germany.
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