A somber record has been reached in the United States as the nation witnessed 28 instances of mass killings during the first six months of this year.
The Associated PressA family lays flowers at a memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School on March 29 in Nashville, Tenn.
"What a ghastly milestone," said Brent Leatherwood, whose three kids were in class at a private Christian school in Nashville on March 27. "You never think your family would be a part of a statistic like that." The 2023 milestone beat the previous record of 27 mass killings, which was only set in the second half of 2022. James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University, never imagined records like this when he began overseeing the database about five years ago.
Experts like Barnhorst and Fox attribute the rising bloodshed to a growing population with an increased number of guns in the U.S. The Nashville shooter used three guns in the attack, including an AR-15-style rifle. It was one of at least four mass killings in the first half of 2023 involving such a weapon, according to the database.
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