One mass shooting every day: Seven facts about gun violence in America
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1. The Las Vegas mass shooting wasn't the only mass shooting in America on Sunday
... Some 13,000 miles away in Lawrence, just outside the University of Kansas in Kansas, two men and a woman were killed and a further two people injured in a mass shooting incident....
Mass shootings in America - defined as an event where at least four people are shot - are now an every day event....
2. One major mass shooting every two months
... Some 346 people are estimated to have been killed in American mass shootings this year. This compared to 432 in 2016, and 369 in 2015 - more than one person for every day of the year.
When it comes to major mass shootings (where more than four people are killed), there have been an average of just 72 days between events during the period of 2010 to 2017.
This is a far more frequent rate when compared to the average gap of 162 days from 2000 to 2010, according to data compiled by Mother Jones.
The two worst mass shooting events - this week's Las Vegas shooting and the Pulse nightclub atrocity in Orlando - have occurred in the last two years....
3. Firearms sales go up after mass shootings
4. 270m guns for 320m people
In 2007, the Small Arms Survey estimated that there were between 250m and 290m civilian-owned firearms in the US - a rate of around 90 per 100 people.
This was the highest rate of civilian guns for any of the 178 countries that were surveyed and was ahead of Yemen (55 guns per 100 civilians) in second place by quite some distance.
Higher rates of gun ownership correlate strongly with occurrences of mass shootings with the US emerging at the top of tree when it came to mass shootings per head in a study by Jaclyn Schildkraut of the State University of New York.
Countries with more guns have more mass shootings
5. Mass shootings are just the tip of the iceberg
Between 2001 and 2013, 406,496 people died as a result of gun violence in America according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of this number the majority - 237,052 - were actually suicides as opposed to homicides.
Homicides accounted for 153,144 deaths over this period while the rest comprised 8,383 accidental deaths, 4,778 deaths from police shootings and 3,200 where the cause couldn't be determined....
6. Texas is often at the frontline of mass shootings
7. Americans can't agree on gun control