US Mass Shootings on the Rise: A Look at the Numbers.
TL;DR
The mass shooting in Allen, Texas, which killed eight people and injured seven, is the 22nd mass killing in the US this year, putting 2023 on pace to be one of the deadliest years in recent history for fatal shootings. The data shows that six public fatal shootings were reported in the first third of 2023, which is as many as in all of 2012 and greater than the total number of such shootings in 11 of the 18 years tracked by the database.
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