After Parkland, mass shootings remain a regular occurrence in America.
On December 14,2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. The horrific mass shooting led to calls to stop such tragedies in the US forever — in the mantra of “never again.”
Since Sandy Hook, though, there have been nearly 2,000 mass shootings in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed. More than 2,200 have been killed and nearly 8,200 wounded.
Since 2013, there has been only one full calendar week — the week of January 5,2014 — without a mass shooting.
Here’s how all of those shootings since Sandy Hook look in map form, based on data from the Gun Violence Archive and taken from the Vox tracker developed by Kavya Sukumar:
In Las Vegas in October 2017, a gunman killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. In Orlando, Florida, in June 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded dozens more at a gay nightclub.
And in Parkland, Florida, a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School exactly one year ago — on February 14,2018. That shooting inspired a new national movement for gun control, culminating in the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, and sister marches across the country last March.
