Shooting Fatigue

Twenty-six people shot to death at a church in Texas, in a town so small that the fatalities represent seven percent of the population. Fifty-nine people killed when a gunman opened fire at a concert on the Las Vegas strip, many of them tourists from across the U.S. and the globe.

With two of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history having happened over the past month, and with the U.S. having seen 378 mass shootings so far in 2017, many Americans say they are suffering from “shooting fatigue.” They say the tragedies are happening so often that it’s hard to even keep track — and even harder to mentally and emotionally process the constantly-rising death count.