Report: U.S. averages nearly one mass shooting per day so far in 2017

[deminks]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-u-s-averages-nearly-one-mass-shooting-per-day-so-far-in-2017/

As thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas fled a barrage of bullets fired from hundreds of feet away, and 32 floors up, Sunday night, the hundreds who were hurt or killed became the victims of the 273rd mass shooting in the U.S. this year.

Sunday was the 274th day of the year.

Those shootings have left more than 1,500 people injured, and more than 300 dead, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks and catalogs incidents in which at least four people, not counting the shooter, are injured or killed in a shooting. These numbers include the Las Vegas attack, for which the total number of dead and injured is still being assessed.

The incidents, as they do every year, spanned the country, occurring in cities, rural communities and suburbs in nearly every state.

"This doesn't stop, I have not had a vacation since 2013," said Mark Bryant, who runs the Gun Violence Archive along with about 20 paid researchers and staffers, most of whom he says have master's or higher-level degrees in library science and other research fields.

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The Gun Violence Archive

https://twitter.com/GunDeaths

Follow them.

You know, the CDC should be tracking this information, spearheading this research, but they are prohibited by (NRA lobbied) law.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gun-research-funding-20160614-snap-story.html

There is one thing congress critters could do - break the NRA yoke and let the CDC do its research.