In the wake of the Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park mass shootings, data analysts say the number of victims in mass shootings is also increasing.
Over the last 10 years, data analysts say gun violence has gone up and it’s not just the number of mass shootings. The number of victims is also increasing.
There have been five mass shootings in California so far this year; three of them in the last three days alone.
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Mark Bryant is the Executive Director of the Gun Violence Archive. GVA’s researchers log gun violence incidents.
Over the last decade, Bryant says gun violence is up by approximately 25 percent.
„The numbers have gone up, the number of people killed, the number of people injured, the number of mass shootings just have gone up dramatically,“ said Bryant.
