> Every time there's a mass shooting [...]
If this is a valid premise, then you know you are doing something wrong as a society. Mass shootings are common place in the US (with currently 177 mass shootings this year so far). This is not normal.
If this is a valid premise, then you know you are doing something wrong as a society. Mass shootings are common place in the US (with currently 177 mass shootings this year so far). This is not normal.
If you use the FBI's active shooting definition, there's closer to 15-20 per year on a 20 year average.
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents...
If you use the GVA definition, which includes a whole lot of other things, then yes. But the GVA's dataset is somewhat suspect.
For example this qualifies as a mass shooting in the GVA:
https://www.atlantapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/4031/631