'March for Our Lives': Deadly shootings in the US through the years

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While many people across the US may not have been personally affected by mass shootings, the stats tell a different story. Numbers circulated by US GunViolenceArchive.org indicate that such incidents in the US have become an almost daily phenomenon. Here is a look at the deadliest mass shootings in the country within the last decade.

In 2017 alone, more than 52,000 shootings occurred in the United States, killing 13,158 people and injuring nearly 27,000.

The most recent attack occurred on February 14, 2018, in Parkland, Florida when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at a high school. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more wounded.

Three months earlier, from November 13 to the 14, 2017, a series of shootings happened in Rancho Tehama Reserve, California. Five people were killed and 18 others injured.

Meanwhile, in the same month, another deadly shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The gunman, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 and injured 20 others.

Another shooting shocked the world on October 1. A gunman opened fire on crowds of people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, taking the lives of 58 people and leaving 851 injured.

Fast forward to April 10th, 2017, gunman Cedric Anderson killed an 8-year-old student and his wife. The attack caught attention as it happened at an elementary school in San Bernardino, California.

And one year earlier, on June 12, 2016, 29-year-old security guard, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 58 others at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Another shooting also took place in California. On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others seriously injured in a gun attack in San Bernardino. The two killers were killed by local police 2 hours later.

One of the deadliest school shootings in US history occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunman shot dead 20 children, as well as six adults.

This shooting prompted debates on gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal. However, after six years, there's been no major change in gun legislation for the American people.