More than 600 mass shootings have occurred in the United States this year. The alarming figure was recorded for the third consecutive year.
This was denounced by the non-profit organization Gun Violence Archive , specifying that these are "accidents" in which, in each one, four or more people were killed, including the aggressor.
2021 was the record year for massacres in the States: the bar rose to 690. In 2020 there were 610, in 2019 417.
After the massacre in the Walmart in Virginia a few days ago , the count is still at 609. More generally, the deaths from gun violence in the United States in 2022 were 39,816, of which over 18,000 were homicides and around 21,500 were suicides.
(Unioneonline/vf)
