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There have been 216 days this year and already there have been 251 mass shootings in the United States. The Gun Violence Archive categorizes a mass shooting as any incident in which at least four people are shot, not including the shooter. 18 of those 251 shootings have resulted in multiple people getting killed. 5 shootings have occurred in the last 9 days. Two happened in the last 48 hours of each other. In all, a total of 275 people have died already from mass shootings this year. Click this link to read the full list of shootings that have occurred this year.