U.S. Has Had 64 Mass Shootings In First 54 Days Of 2022

The chart above is from the Gun Violence Archive. It shows that the United States has had 64 mass shootings (where at least four people were shot) in the first 54 days of this year. We are still averaging more than one mass shooting for every day.

There have not been any mass shootings making national news lately, so it has been easy for our politicians to ignore the issue. But the tragedy of too many mass shootings, and too many gun deaths (6,283) is not going away. They are still of epidemic proportions.

No other developed nation has this problem (either mass shootings or gun deaths). We have the problem because our society has too many guns floating around (more than one gun per citizen, including children). We also have very lax gun laws, and a background check law with too many loopholes (which allows anyone, including terrorists and criminals to easily get any kind of gun they want).

Our politicians could fix this -- especially the porous background check law. A huge majority of the population would support that. But donations from the NRA and gun manufacturers are more important to many of our politicians than the lives of American citizens.

It's time to change that -- and the only way to do it is to vote those politicians out of office!