Last year, the United States recorded 407 mass shootings, the lowest total in a year since before the pandemic began. The year 2021 remains the worst year for mass shootings in the US since the Gun Violence Archive began tracking them in 2013, with 690 across 44 states and Washington, DC.

Mass Shootings Trend

GVA data shows a dangerous pace of mass shootings in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Shootings doubled in July 2020 compared with the year before, as researchers noted in the journal JAMA Open Network in analyzing GVA data between April 2020 and July 2021.

The increase in mass shootings coincided with an overall rise in gun violence during the pandemic. The US firearm homicide rate in 2020 was the highest recorded since 1994, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2019 and 2020, the overall firearm homicide rate increased about 35%, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.