As of March 12, there have been 65 mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive . These horrific events include a shooting at Old Dominion University , a youth hockey game in Rhode Island, an attack at a bar in Austin that left three people dead and many more injured and many, many other shootings that don’t garner enough attention. These mass shootings are heartbreakingly commonplace throughout the U.S., which has a “26 times higher gun homicide rate