On Tuesday, a gunman allegedly killed six people and injured four at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. That came just days after a 22-year-old man allegedly killed five people and wounded 18 more at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And earlier this month, a shooter allegedly targeted members of the University of Virginia football team, killing three people and injuring two others as students traveled back to Charlottesville from a school trip to Washington, DC.

These incidents are among more than 600 mass shootings — an incident during which four or more people are shot, as defined by the Gun Violence Archive — that have taken place in the US this year. They follow shootings at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois this summer; at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June; at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in May; and at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York in May.

No other high-income country has suffered such a high death toll from gun violence. Every day, more than 110 Americans die at the end of a gun, including suicides and homicides, an average of 40,620 per year. Since 2009, there has been an annual average […]