The Florida nightclub attack is considered the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history

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With about 50 dead and 53 more hospitalized, Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub is considered the deadliest such incident in American history. The death toll outpaces that of attacks at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, which killed 32 and 27 people, respectively.

Fatalities and Injuries from Mass Shootings in the U.S. | Graphiq

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.