"The U.S. has just endured the deadliest six months of mass killings since at least 2006, AP reports.
From Jan. 1 to June 30, the nation endured 28 mass killings (four or more killed, not counting the assailant).
27 of the 28 involved guns. The other was a fire that killed four in a home in Monroe, La. A 37-year-old man was charged with arson and murder.
A database maintained by AP and USA Today, in partnership with Northeastern University, tracks this violence back to 2006.
James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern who has been tracking crime data for 45+ years, said: "We used to say there were two to three dozen a year. The fact that there's 28 in half a year is a staggering statistic."
What's happening: Experts attribute the rising bloodshed to a growing population with an increased number of guns in the U.S.
Yet for all the headlines, mass killings are statistically rare and represent a fraction of the country's overall gun violence."
-Axios
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