Such explanations are little comfort not only to the families ripped apart by the killings but to Americans everywhere who are reeling from the cascading, collective trauma of mass violence.Ĭontributing to 2023′s steady drumbeat of death: the grisly murder-suicide in Utah that left five children, their parents and their grandmother dead just days into the new year the fatal shooting of six people, including three 9-year-old children, at an elementary school in Nashville back-to-back rampages in California at dance studios and mushroom farms and the mall shooting in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, when authorities say a gunman stepped out of a car and immediately started firing at people. Mass shootings account for the vast majority of mass killings, though there are examples where the perpetrator used knives or other weapons as well.Įxperts point to a few contributing factors: a general increase in all types of gun violence in recent years the proliferation of firearms amid lax gun laws the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, including the stress of long months in quarantine a political climate unable or unwilling to change the status quo in meaningful ways and an increased emphasis on violence in U.S.
The atrocities have been driven almost exclusively by gun violence, since all 22 of the incidents in 2023 involved firearms in some way. The total represents the highest number of mass-killing deaths this early in the year since at least 2006, an Associated Press data analysis shows, and the deaths were already happening at a record pace before the horror unfolded in Texas.
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