Mass shootings, like the ones that occurred Monday in Philadelphia and Fort Worth, Texas – and over the weekend in Baltimore — are not uncommon around the Fourth of July. The holiday has accounted for the most mass shootings of any other days of the year in nearly a decade, according to a CNN analysis of the Gun Violence Archive’s mass shooting data since 2014.

Both CNN and GVA define a “mass shooting” as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.

 

The July 4 holiday sees the most mass shootings of any other calendar date

Over nearly the last decade, there have been more than 50 mass shootings on July 4, more than any other calendar day. The second most frequent day is the day after, July 5.

 

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Vote people let’s get rid of the cowards that grovel at the feet of the gun lobby 

Time to get tough on crime.

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Is July 4th the time of lunatics and whoever is blamed for gun crime?

Maybe not surprisingly July 1 is non violent day????