![Law enforcement officials with armored vehicles search an area near where police stopped a suspect SUV in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The search followed a military-style attack that killed multiple people and wounded others at a California center that serves people with developmental disabilities, authorities said. [Chris Carlson | Associated Press]](https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//aMRcnRYZe8AIdBKFkBC-O6D8Paw=/426x0/smart/filters:format(webP)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tbt.s3.amazonaws.com/public/KI2SRTGHFMI6TBKNIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "Law enforcement officials with armored vehicles search an area near where police stopped a suspect SUV in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The search followed a military-style attack that killed multiple people and wounded others at a California center that serves people with developmental disabilities, authorities said. [Chris Carlson | Associated Press]")
The rampage that claimed at least 14 lives in San Bernardino, Calif., isn't today's first mass shooting. Here's news you probably missed: A gunman in Savannah, Ga., shot four people early Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring three men.
Police haven't arrested a suspect, said Eunicia Baker, spokesperson for the Savannah Chatham Police Department. They also haven't released the names of the victims, and the three men are expected to recover. There was little acknowledgment of the incident in news media: One local television station covered the shootings in three paragraphs.
And the world spun on.
Then news broke that multiple attackers opened fire at a center for disabled adults in San Bernardino — a center that just hosted its holiday party yesterday.
Suddenly, the little-noticed crime in Georgia became the second mass shooting in a single day — and the third since Robert L. Dear Jr. opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic last week in Colorado springs.
After the Colorado Springs shootings, President Barack Obama declared that this type of violence must not "become normal." But as the Washington Post's Chris Ingraham points out, the data show that mass shootings are already normal. There have been more mass shootings than calendar days this year.
News reports collected by a Reddit community show there have been 355 mass shootings in 2015. The Mass Shooting Tracker, as its called, differs from other shooting databases in that it uses a broader definition than the FBI's old four-fatality rule: If bullets strike four people in the same attack, that's a mass shooting.
The big ones, of course, attract the national media, comments from the president, cries of terrorism. The small ones . . . well, they have become just another police report in the United States.
The Mass Shooting Tracker
The San Bernardino shooting would be the 355th mass shooting this year, according to a mass shooting tracker maintained by the Guns Are Cool subreddit. ( http://www.reddit.com/r/GunsAreCool/wiki/2015massshootings )The Reddit tracker defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people, including the gunman, are killed or injured by gunfire. This portion of that list reflects only the shootings since Oct. 1. It begins with shooting 296, in which a gunman killed nine people and himself at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.
296: Oct. 1, 10 dead, 9 injured, Roseburg, Ore.
297: Oct. 1, 3 dead 1 injured, Inglis
298: Oct. 2, 1 dead 4 injured, Baltimore
299: Oct. 6, 5 injured, Baltimore
300: Oct. 9, 1 dead 3 injured, Flagstaff, Ariz.
301: Oct. 10, 4 injured, Charlotte, N.C.
302: Oct. 10, 1 dead 3 injured, Peoria, Ill.
303: Oct. 10, 5 injured, Memphis, Tenn.
304: Oct. 12, 4 injured, Dekalb County, Ga.
305: Oct. 17, 4 injured, Elkhart, Ind.
306: Oct. 17, 1 dead 5 injured, Fort Myers
307: Oct. 18, 4 injured, New Orleans
308: Oct. 19, 7 injured, Calumet City, Ill.
309: Oct. 23, 1 dead 3 injured, Nashville
310: Oct. 24, 4 injured, Bamberg, S.C.
311: Oct. 25, 1 dead 4 injured, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Explore all your options312: Oct. 25, 5 injured, Washington, D.C.
313: Oct. 25, 5 injured, Four Oaks, N.C.
314: Oct. 25, 2 dead 2 injured, Pageland, S.C.
315: Oct. 26, 5 injured, Evansville, Ind.
316: Oct. 27, 5 injured, Fort Worth, Texas
317: Oct. 28, 1 dead 3 injured, Houma, La.
318: Oct. 31, 4 dead, Colorado Springs, Colo.
319: Nov. 2, 4 dead, Pendleton, S.C.
320: Nov. 3, 1 dead 3 injured, Jacksonville
321: Nov. 3, 2 dead 2 injured, Cypress, Texas
322: Nov. 4, 4 dead, Oakland, Maine
323: Nov. 6, 4 injured, Tallahasse
324: Nov. 6, 1 dead 3 injured, Denver
325: Nov. 6, 4 injured, Bakersfield, Calif.
326: Nov. 7, 2 dead 2 injured, Waycross, Ga.
327: Nov. 8, 1 dead 3 injured, Des Moines, Iowa
328: Nov. 8, 4 injured, Warren, Mich.
329: Nov. 9, 2 dead 2 injured, Indianapolis
330: Nov. 13, 4 dead 1 injured, Jacksonville
331: Nov. 13, 3 dead 2 injured, Southern California (multiple locations)
332: Nov. 14, 5 injured, Johnstown, Pa.
333: Nov. 15, 4 injured, Philadelphia
334: Nov. 15, 6 dead 1 injured, Anderson County, Texas
335: Nov. 16, 3 dead 1 injured, Cherokee County, Ala.
336: Nov. 16, 1 dead 5 injured, Youngstown, Ohio
337: Nov. 17, 4 dead, Calloway County, Kent.
338: Nov. 18, 5 injured, Fresno, Calif.
339: Nov. 20, 1 dead 3 injured, Pittsburgh
340: Nov. 21, 1 dead 3 injured, Baltimore
341: Nov. 22, 5 injured, Newburgh, N.Y.
342: Nov. 22, 5 injured, Seattle
343: Nov. 22, 4 injured, Chicago
344: Nov. 22, 4 injured, Brownsville, Texas
345: Nov. 22, 17 injured, New Orleans
346: Nov. 23, 5 injured, Minneapolis, Minn.
347: Nov. 23, 4 dead 1 injured, Columbus, Ohio
348: Nov. 23, 1 dead 3 injured, Houston
349: Nov. 24, 4 injured, Conway, S.C.
350: Nov. 26, 1 dead 3 injured, Boston
351: Nov. 27, 2 dead 2 injured, Sacramento, Calif.
352: Nov. 27, 3 dead 9 injured, Colorado Springs, Colo.
353: Nov. 29, 5 injured, Kankakee, Ill.
354: Dec. 2, 1 dead 3 injured, Savannah, Ga.
355: Dec. 2, 14 dead 14 injured, San Bernardino, Calif.
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