America's gun crisis

The article below comes from the Guardian UK newspaper. The Orlando shooting was not the deadliest mass shooting in American history, but it is the deadliest in a few decades at least. And it is part of trend, as explained below. The link to the full article and the graphic is here.

1,000 mass shootings in 1,260 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

“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 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.