The Wednesday mass shooting at a high school in Florida was the 18th shooting at an school since the beginning of 2018, that is one shooting every 60 hours.
There has been over 6,500 shooting incidents across the US so far, leading to the death of over 1,820 people and injuring more than 3,100 other.
The data have been compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit that tracks gun-related violence in the US.
According to the website, since January 69 children between the ages of 1-11 years and a staggering number of 333 teenagers (12-17 years) have been killed in various incidents.
As of Thursday, there has been 30 mass shootings, collectively killing over 58 people and injuring dozens more.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, a school shooting is “any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds, as documented by the press and, when necessary,…