21 Weeks Into 2022, the United States Has Experienced 213 Mass Shootings

21 Weeks Into 2022, the United States , Has Experienced 213 Mass Shootings.

NPR reports mass shootings in the United States have occurred with depressing regularity in 2022.

Only 145 days into the new year, the country has already experienced 213 mass shootings.

That's 213 attacks in only 21 weeks.

That means the country has averaged almost ten mass shootings per week thus far in 2022.

The Gun Violence Archive classifies a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot and killed.

Mass shootings are becoming even more common in the United States.

In 2019, 417 mass shootings occurred.

In 2020, that number rose to 611.

In 2021, the country ended the year with 693 mass shootings.

While mass shooters are often seen as out of touch with reality, .

Mark Follman, author of 'Trigger Points,' says there's "a very rational thought process" that goes into planning and executing these massacres.

The general public views mass shooters as people who are totally crazy, insane.

It fits with the idea of snapping, as if these people are totally detached from reality, Mark Follman, mass shooting researcher, author of 'Trigger Points,' via NPR.

This is planned violence.

There is, in every one of these cases, always a trail of... behavioral warning signs.

, Mark Follman, mass shooting researcher, author of 'Trigger Points,' via NPR