The Graphic Truth: Gun deaths from mass shootings in the US

Map showing gun deaths by US state from 2020-2023.
Map showing gun deaths by US state from 2020-2023.
Paige Fusco

It’s America’s recurring nightmare. On Monday, a disgruntled bank employee used an AR-15 rifle he’d purchased locally the week before to murder five colleagues and injure eight others in Louisville, Kentucky. There have been more mass shootings, 147, than there have been days so far in 2023. We look at the death tolls from 2,000 mass shootings in the US since 2020 by state.

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