We made a list of all the mass shootings since Sandy Hook, and it’s a national travesty

In December 2012, a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In the wake of what was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, we said “never again.” But on the fifth anniversary of the shooting in Newtown, we took a look at the mass shootings since Sandy Hook.

Is the number of mass shootings increasing?

If a mass shooting is defined as an incident where at least four people are killed in a public location, the number of shootings has remained relatively stable. But mass shootings have become deadlier.

The number of mass shootings in the last five years varies depending on how you define a mass shooting. Mother Jones lists 33 mass shootings since 2013, while Vox lists a much larger 1,576. But no matter how you look at it, there have been a lot of mass shootings since Sandy Hook.

The deadliest shootings since Sandy Hook:

1. The most recent mass shooting happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on November 5th.

The gunman killed 26 people including an unborn child when he shot up a Baptist Church.

2. A month earlier on October 1st, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire at a music festival from his hotel room in the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas.

This is ranked as the deadliest shooting of all time, with 58 people killed and about 500 injured.

3. On June 12th, 2016, a shooting targeted young LGBTQ people at the nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida.

This is the second deadliest shooting, with 49 deaths and more than 50 injuries.

4. On December 2nd, 2015, 14 people were killed when married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.

5. Nine people were injured and nine people killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on October 1st, 2015.

6. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist shot and killed nine people at an Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

He was convicted of hate crimes and sentenced to death.

7. A shooting in the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on September 16th, 2013, killed 12, including the killer, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis.

No matter how you define mass shotings, the fact is that the U.S. experiences too many of them. It’s not enough to say “never again” after a mass shooting. We need to put a stop to gun violence, and we need to do it now.