More than 10,000 people in the US have died from gun violence so far this year, which means an average of over 111 deaths per day, according to a non-profit research group.
A heavily-armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville on Monday, before being shot dead by police.
A rampage at Nashville s Covenant School that killed three children and three adults is only the latest in a tragic and relentless cycle of US school mass shootings. Here are America s deadliest classroom gun massacres dating back to the late 90s
US Gun Violence: As many as 98 per cent of mass shootings that have occurred in America since 1966 were carried out by men, says the Violence Project, a research group. The attacker who killed six people at a school in Nashville on Monday was assigned female at birth and identified as transgender