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It depends entirely on the definition of mass shooting.

If you use the FBI's active shooting definition, there's closer to 15-20 per year on a 20 year average.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents...

If you use the GVA definition, which includes a whole lot of other things, then yes. But the GVA's dataset is somewhat suspect.

For example this qualifies as a mass shooting in the GVA:

https://www.atlantapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/4031/631




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