 The United States has now had the deadliest six months of mass shootings in over 15 years. The US has had 28 mass killings since January 1, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University. According to the database, over 140 people were killed in the US between the beginning of January and the end of June. The overwhelming death toll is the highest in the first six months of a year since the database's founding 2006. Police officers gather evidence at the scene of a shooting in South Philadelphia earlier in July (Picture: EPA) Armed police officers respond to a mass shooting outside an Atlanta hospital (Picture: EPA) All but one of these attacks were carried out by people armed with firearms. Earlier this year, researchers estimated that mass killings were happening once every 6.53 days this year. If the US maintains this pace, they are on track to meet or exceed last year's total of 42. 'We used to say there were two to three dozen a year,' said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern who maintains the database. US Vice President Kamala Harris walks to lay flowers at the memorial outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, the scene of a mass shooting in January (Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Two people embrace outside of a bank building where a mass shooting took place in Louisville, Kentucky (Picture: AP) 'The fact that there's 28 in half a year is a staggering statistic.' The database defines mass killing as 'intentional killing of four or more victims by any means within a 24-hour period.' It does not include the shooter, or any unborn children. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) maintains a similar database, but their qualifications for what qualifies as a mass shooting are slightly broader. The GVA defines mass shooting as 'minimum of four victims shot, either injured o){kind=link}
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The United States has now had the deadliest six months of mass shootings in over 15 years.
The US has had 28 mass killings since January 1, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University.
According to the database, over 140 people were killed in the US between the beginning of January and the end of June.
The overwhelming death toll is the highest in the first six months of a year since the database’s founding 2006.