Mass killings

Since 2009, there have been 274 mass shootings in the United States, resulting in 1536 people shot and killed. This equates to 125 killings per year. Every year 500 children under the age of 14 are killed by gunshot but these are spread around different cities and do not get the attention of a mass killing. Many of these children are killed in drive by shootings. It is somewhat like fentanyl deaths which totaled 70,000 last year. If one location would have recorded 20 deaths at one time the news would probably cover that. It is like a white man killing a Black man get lots of coverage but when 20 Black men are killed by 20 other Black men in one weekend in Chicago not much is reported. The news is very selective.