Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., brings the total of mass shootings this year — incidents where four or more people are killed or injured by gunfire — to 294.
Thursday marked only the 274th day this year.
The shootings are captured in this calendar, drawn from the Mass Shooting Tracker.
The tracker draws some criticism because its definition is broader than the FBI’s definition, which requires three or more people to be killed by gunfire.
But the broader definition is nonetheless a useful one, because it captures many high-profile instances of violence — such as the Lafayette, Colo., theater shootings — that don’t meet the FBI’s criteria.
Charleston. Lafayette. Virginia. Now, Roseburg. But beneath the steady drumbeat of these high-profile cases lay the hundreds daily mass shootings that most of us never hear about.