Walmart mass shooting at the Chesapeake Bay is the 31st mass shooting in November 2022. This is the third consecutive year that there have been more than 600 multiple-victim shootings in the United States.

The data was released by The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organisation, that tracks mass shootings. It defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which at least four people – other than the person wielding the gun are shot.

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The United States has witnessed 605 mass shootings in 37 different states in the 326 days of 2022. Nearly 40,000 people have died due to gun violence overall in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The deadly attack Wednesday on a Walmart store in the US state of Virginia late on November 22. The single shooter suspect is also dead, the local police said.

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The GVA data shows 610 multiple-victim shootings in 2020 and 690 last year when the coronavirus pandemic was already easing and the pace of deadly violence increased across the US. It has been keeping a record of mass shootings since 2014 when it recorded 273.

In 2021, around 45,010 people were killed in 690 mass shootings.

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There were 13 mass shootings in the first weekend in June this year, lower than two weeks after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. It was the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

On the night of November 20, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, according to the police. Among the victims were two bartenders and a trans woman visiting from Denver.

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People across the country are begging for gun reform, and families of gun violence victims have been calling on officials to tighten gun control legislation as mass shootings keep on happening and at an uncontrolled pace.

The United States has far more relaxed firearm laws and policies compared to other countries. The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives a federal right to an American to own a firearm. Gun laws also vary from state to state as some states have more restrictive laws, while some allow for much greater firearm ownership rates for protection and hunting.