1963
(The year the Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle was introduced)
540
(The number of rounds per minute this weapon can fire when outfitted with a bump fire stock)
2
(The amendment to the United States Constitution that allows the purchase of this weapon)
1789
(The year that amendment was ratified)
1992
(The last time that amendment was revised)
1999
(The year in which the Columbine High School massacre occurred)
35
(The number of people killed in the latest mass shooting in Australia)
1996
(The year that shooting took place)
20
(The number of children killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in 2012)
6
(The number of adult victims of that shooting)
6-7
(The age ranges of those children)
1,400
(The number of bullets found in that shooter’s home)
14
(The number of people killed in the San Bernardino shooting in 2015)
2
(The number of semi-automatic weapons each shooter carried)
100+
(The number of bullets fired)
2
(The number of shooters in this incident)
6
(The age, in months of their daughter)
49
(The number of people killed in the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016)
110
(The number of rounds the shooter fired)
3
(The number of 9-1-1 calls the shooter himself made during the shooting)
20
(The number of minutes before the SWAT team arrived)
58
(The number of people killed in the Las Vegas shooting in 2017)
1,100
(The number of rounds fired into the crowd)
24
(The number of firearms found in the shooter’s hotel room)
14
(The number of those firearms which were AR-15s modified with bump fire stock)
1,470
(The distance, in number of feet, from which the shooter fired from his hotel room window)
32
(The floor from which the shooter fired)
26
(The number of people killed in the Sutherland Springs church shooting in 2017)
15
(The number of empty magazines found in the church)
30
(The number of rounds each magazine held)
450
(15 x 30)
17+
(The death toll of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, February 14, 2018)
40
(The number of gunshots heard in a viral video taken by one of the students at that high school)
19
(The age of the shooter)
9-1-1
(The emergency dispatch number overwhelmed by student calls from inside the building—students were eventually told to stop calling)
176
(The combined death toll from these five shootings)
11,438,118
(The number of dollars the NRA spent to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election)
19,756,346
(The number of dollars the NRA spent to oppose Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election)
7,740,521
(The number of dollars the NRA contributed to Senator John McCain)
6,986,620
(The number of dollars the NRA contributed to Senator Richard Burr)
4,551,146
(The number of dollars the NRA contributed to Senator Roy Blunt)
3,303,355
(The number of dollars the NRA contributed to Senator Marco Rubio)
18
(The number of school shootings in America in 2018, as of February 15)
45
(The number of school days in 2018, as of February 15)
40
(The percentage chance on any given school day in 2018 that a school shooting will occur in America)
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