The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
Washington Post and FBI data indicates

"Mass shootings, by design, [are] meant to go viral in that sense. That's the goal of them, is fame, is notoriety," she said. And these public mass shootings have a "psychological impact" on people, instilling fear of going to the movies or a grocery store, she said."

"The most common mass killings, Peterson said, are those that typically get the least public attention: household killings, in which someone kills their relatives and then themself.
In that sense, those mass killings have something in common with most other gun violence in the United States: People tend to know their killers, according to FBI data."

"Two demographic groups bear the brunt of escalating gun violence and are most likely to die of a gunshot wound in the United States: young Black men and older White men.
White men are six times as likely to die by suicide as other Americans. Black men are 17 times as likely to be killed with a gun fired by someone else.
About 60% of the gun deaths in the United States each year are suicides, according to CDC data spanning the past 20 years."

The consistent invocations of mental health after massacres such as those in Buffalo, Uvalde and Highland Park are ways for officials to distance themselves from the horror of the event, to explain the unfathomable,...It's a fake explanation. Why has this man done this terrible thing? The answer is because he's mentally ill. How do you know he's mentally ill? Because he's done this terrible thing."

[news.yahoo.com]