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<\/a>The Dayton, Ohio shooting was the second in 24 hours in the US, and third in a week.<\/p><\/div>\n
As of today (Aug. 4), we are 216 days into 2019. In the US over that time, more than 1,300 people have been injured or killed in mass shootings, according to\u00a0data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.<\/a><\/p>\n The nonprofit organization, which is based in Washington, DC, defines a mass shooting as an event in which at least four people were shot. By its calculations, that means there have been some 292 mass shootings in the US since the year began.<\/p>\n Within the past 24 hours alone, two mass shootings took place in two different states. The first occurred on Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman\u00a0killed 20 and injured 26.<\/a>\u00a0The second unfolded early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman\u00a0killed 9 people and injured at least 16 more<\/a>. It was the third mass shooting in the US this week.<\/p>\n Police said officers shot and killed the gunman in Dayton.<\/p>\n The El Paso shooter is in police custody, however, and being interviewed by authorities. Police believe the 21-year-old white man posted a\u00a02,300-word anti-immigrant manifesto<\/a>\u00a0minutes before the attack. According to the manifesto, the shooter was inspired by the\u00a0New Zealand mass shooting<\/a>\u00a0at a mosque in March of this year.<\/p>\n As Axios\u2019 Mike Allen\u00a0pointed out this morning<\/a>, the US has the highest gun ownership rate of any other country in the world. In the US, there are\u00a0120.5 guns per 100 people<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)\u2014more than twice the rate of Yemen, which has the next highest rate at 52.8 guns per 100 people. The high rate of gun ownership and the spread of white nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment are\u00a0largely blamed<\/a>\u00a0for fueling the unprecedented number of mass shootings in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n