The United States , Has Already Experienced , 198 Mass Shootings in 2022.
NPR reports ten people lost their lives in the recent racially charged attack in Buffalo, New York, .
Making it the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 in the United States.
With just over 19 weeks into the new year, the country has already experienced 198 mass shooting events.
That equates to around ten mass shootings per week.
Mass shootings have become increasingly common in the United States.
In 2021, the country saw 693 mass shootings.
In 2020, that number was 611 and 2019 saw 417 such events.
Experts say such deadly massacres aren't happening at random.
This is planned violence.
, Mark Follman, author of 'Trigger Points,' mass shooting researcher, via NPR.
There is, in every one of these cases, always a trail of ... behavioral warning signs.
, Mark Follman, author of 'Trigger Points,' mass shooting researcher, via NPR.
Experts say the role of mental health in such devastating events are often misunderstood.
The general public views mass shooters as people who are totally crazy, insane.
It fits with the idea of snapping, as if these people are totally detached from reality.
, Mark Follman, author of 'Trigger Points,' mass shooting researcher, via NPR.
Instead, experts believe "a very rational thought process" occurs in planning and initiating a mass shooting
