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The shooting in a country bar in California now add another deadly line to the growing list of mass shootings in the United States this year.
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So far, there have been at least six mass shootings, which resulted in 59 deaths.
The most deadly among them was the shooting of the Parkland school, when 17 students and staff members were killed.
The shooting of Thousand Oaks on Wednesday night left at least 12 dead and occurs less than two weeks later. 11 faithful were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Among the other massive shootings this year, one is included at Sante Fe High School in Texas in May, in which 10 students and teachers They were shot dead.
Another shooting at a waffle house in Nashville left four dead. And a shooting to a newspaper office In Maryland they left five journalists and dead employees.
"Mass shootings are increasing in the US They have increased in the last four years," said John Cohen, an ABC News consultant and former interim assistant secretary of Homeland Security. "Many law enforcement officials agree that these shootings represent the most serious threat facing the United States today."
The true number of fatalities from gun violence is unknown if only mass shootings are analyzed, which are generally defined using the FBI criteria for mass murder. According to that measure, you have to kill four people to be classified as a mass shooting.
For example, the shooting in a yoga studio in Tallahassee Last week they left three dead. As a result, the incident was not technically considered a mass shooting.
Nor was it a shooting a Maryland rite aid, where three people were killed in September.
"They can happen anywhere," Cohen said of the mass shootings. "They happen more often, more people die and it's a problem that is not getting the right attention."
Wednesday night shooting at the country bar does not qualify as one of the 10 most deadly shootings in the modern history of the United States, since there were at least 10 shootings in which 14 people or more died.
Of the 10 most deadly shootings, five have taken place in the last three years, including the filming of las vegas in October of 2017 when 58 were killed, the night club shooting pulse in which 49 assistants to clubs were killed in June 2016, and the shooting at Sutherland Springs church, where 26 were killed in November 2017.
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